Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Schoenhof's due to its pleasant atmosphere, interesting books, and frequent discounts, has a dedicated clientele outside of academia. The staff is friendly and helpful, always willing to turn a bookshelf inside-our to find that slim and elusive book which insists on hiding behind some heavy hardcover. As Cambridge resident Marco Calahonra, a native of Argentina, says, "It is the only place where I can find books in my language. They are more expensive than they would be in Buenos Aires, but the prices are not bad and the selection is very good...
...largest black township in the Cape Town area. Its small A.N.C. campaign office -- one of 94 around the country -- is a whitewashed single-story building in a neighborhood where thieves and vandals have driven out most residents and shopkeepers. Behind barred windows, regional secretary Richard Dyantyi, 24, a slim former marketing student, directs the A.N.C.'s organizational work. Though he has only one telephone, one fax and two reluctant copying machines, he has lots of helpers. Their job, he says, is "to make sure the people know how to register their support when the time comes...
...already -- and this is creepy, considering the quicksilver brutality of his Goeth -- a burgeoning sex symbol. Doughy and dark in the movie or slim, handsome and smiling in person, Fiennes, 31, is the improbable hunk...
...That slim one-goal lead lasted achingly closeto game's end, but it wasn't to be. With 8:09 toplay, BC Coach Steve Cedorchuk called his timeoutattempting to stem the flow of Harvard'sthird-period momentum, and the ploy workedperfectly...
Those of us who have spent long, enjoyable hours running along the Charles at dawn or playing intramural sports with our friends know just how valuable an experience physical education can be. And such physical activity does much more than help student to slim their flabby bodies and control their bodily desires...