Word: slim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson fencers dropped all three events on their way to the disappointing defeat. At sabre, the Crimson's strongest area, and foil, the Lions came up with slim 5-4 victories. Harvard, however, had its biggest problem in the epee event, taking only two of nine bouts...
Because he was the fifth delegates selected, Bok said after the caucus chances were slim he would win a convention seat in the primary balloting March...
...Whatever slim hopes Waldheim had of winning the confidence of the Iranians ended dramatically that afternoon. As a gesture of sympathy, he had planned to tour a museum exhibition of atrocities that the government says were committed during the Shah's rule and to meet with 100 people who claim to have been crippled by the Shah's torturers. The visit was suddenly called off after about 1,000 unruly demonstrators massed in front of the building. Chanting "America, America, death to your dirty tricks," the crowd denounced the Secretary-General as a U.S. puppet. There also were...
...blustery day in Boston, a slim, solitary figure with a shock of hair as white as the falling snow kept approaching passersby. "I'm John Anderson," he cheerfully announced. An intense young man bounded up to him and pleaded: "Why aren't you running on the Democratic ticket? I really don't think you have a prayer in the world in the Republican Party." All too familiar with that question, Anderson stoically replied: "I do have a chance if enough people like you are willing to support...
...sawed-off number named Pearl du Monville - all 35 inches of him - rallies a flagging team and pushes them on toward the pennant. There are many sources to check sports stats, but for the even woollier recreation of rock 'n' roll, the research pickings have been slim. The Rolling Stone Record Guide (Random House/Rolling Stone Press; $19.95 hard cover, $8.95 in paper) is a lively start to ward righting this situation. No more trips to the record store to consult the catalogues. The Guide contains enough spirited information to begin reckoning that exact margin...