Word: slim
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Hussein shows who's boss by firing the British commander in charge of the Arab Legion: "At the center of these clutching pressures was the slim, short, 20-year-old youngster who is King of Jordan. The British used to call Hussein (rhymes with Biscayne) 'a nice little King.'...Last week he seemed sobered by his new sense of power, the next moment as youthfully impulsive as the Harrow schoolboy he once was. He spent one typical morning gravely conferring on affairs of state in his palace office, then suddenly ordered his private de Havilland plane made ready, zipped...
Though the Undergraduate Council last week allocated funds for a spring concert by A Tribe Called Quest, there is now only a slim chance the band will perform on campus...
Dole initially brought a moderate tone with him to New Hampshire after his slim victory in last Monday's Iowa Caucus...
...people are unenthusiastic about becoming eligible for the slim privileges that go with age. A 50-year-old man who receives an invitation to join an organization that offers vitamin discounts for the mature may resent it as a harbinger of that dreaded day when he takes his wife's hand during an evening stroll through the park and overhears some college kid on a nearby bench saying, "Isn't that cute...
Stocks finished down for a second straight day on Wall Street as the Dow Jones industrial average fell 28.18 to 5,551.37. Declines barely lead advances on a slim 10 to nine margin. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange was again heavy at 410. 36 million shares by 4 p.m. The S & P's 500 also fell, down 4.24 to finish at 651.34. The Nasdaq ended the day higher, rising 2.51 to 1,090.54. In London, gold soared, rising...