Word: slim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major task was simply familiarizing the public with the amendment itself. The Daily Oklahoman released the results of a poll showing that Oklahomans favored the ERA by a slim margin. In the same poll, residents were asked their opinion of this unidentified passage: "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." Eighty percent approved, many not knowing that they were endorsing the wording...
...Pisek Hot Band, Cecil Pootz and His Grafton Spuds, the Wonderbar Orchestra, and yes, the great Bill Baroon and His Paloreenies . . ." A marvelously spurious history of radio in Minneapolis produces "Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers," who lost their SunRise Waffle show at 5 a.m. daily to Slim Graves and His Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. "Rise and shine," Slim would tell his listeners every day, "sit up and howl, there's daylight in the swamps...
...fringe benefit of his study, Kissebah may have solved the age-old riddle of why it is so much easier for some women to lose weight above the waist (where fat cells may be enlarged) than to slim down their hips. Says he: "It is much easier to shrink fat cells than to do away with them...
...system be improved? Only if the public elects large numbers of leaders intent upon making their mark by streamlining government. (The chances of that are slim.) The voters at large have almost no control over the advisers and administrators drawing federal salaries, let alone the single-minded lobby groups that build up private fiefdoms within the Congress and the executive branch. Bitter about his own inability to effect major changes during his brief tenure in Washington, the author doesn't push his analysis much past interpreting the motives of his former colleagues. In fact, now that he has abandoned public...
...town, she and Bennett got into an "I quit" - "You're fired" imbroglio that had her out of Dreamgirls until the pair made up. Near the end of Act I, Effie's lover (Ben Harney), who is the cynical manager of the trio, replaces her with a slim looker who possesses the svelte image he feels that the Dreams need to captivate white audiences. He has also taken a new bedmate. Partly in lamentation, partly as anathema, Holliday sings And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going. In her roiling heartbroken fury, she makes...