Word: slim
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...churning 50-m lengths at three-quarter speed was Evans. But she's taller now by a couple of inches--that was clear as she eased out of the pool--and heavier by nearly 20 lbs. of hydrodynamic muscle. This is a change in body mass from waiflike to slim, but it explains why Evans has competed unsuccessfully for so many years against an elusive sprite named Janet...
...computer screen unbidden." The judges found that dicey material--whether from Bianca's Smut Shack or Playboy magazine's hugely popular site--was generally preceded by warnings admonishing those under the age of 18 to keep out. Even the government's own expert witness acknowledged that the odds were slim that a user would come across a sexually explicit site by accident...
Eighteen minutes after the polls' closing, with Peres' slim lead still apparently holding, Shaath and Arafat get on the phone to congratulate each other. Shaath pulls his wife aside for a kiss and a loud high five, then adds lustily, "Now we can eat, but we can avoid the bowls of sour cream. They were here in case Netanyahu won." By 1 a.m. the guests have cleared out. Shaath goes...
...Russians have a saying: "One beaten man is worth two unbeaten ones." Experience, Gorbachev says, "is a great teacher; suffering is the mother of wisdom." So think of Mikhail Gorbachev as a beaten man fighting back. His chances are slim, and he knows it, but he has something to say and is determined to say it. "I set the course that has given people the right to make this choice," he says. "Who more than I has a right to run?" Asked if the prospect of history's kind verdict is comforting, the man who says, "I have seen...
Ants on the Melon is something of a miracle: the first book of poetry by an 83-year-old woman, sightless now from glaucoma, who resides at a retirement community in Claremont, California. But this slim volume distills a lifetime of writing. A graduate of Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe, Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation...