Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slim and the Kansas City Line took a bath last week, each losing two of three in embarrassing fashion. But in week 8, it's the whole shebang--a pick for all 12 games. And we'll be keeping score...
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...intelligence officer or as a lawyer in the military court, known as the Judge Advocate General-Corps (JAG). He thought that as a Harvard alumnus the likelihood of landing such a job would be high, but after one year at ROTC he said he felt his chances were sufficiently slim to warrant leaving the program...
Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...public perception of Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich seems to have been unaffected by their weight loss. Clinton is still popular. Gingrich is still unpopular. As another American President once said, "Life is unfair." That President, of course, had his own vacation compound on the Cape and was slim to begin with...