Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hotly contested 10th district, Democrat John L. Saltonstall Jr. held a slim lead over incumbent Congressman Laurence Curtis. With only a few districts yet to report, the count stood...
...lights were erected at both ends of the bridge to prevent just such attacks. But there are no locks on the switchboxes, and ill-tempered thugs have discovered that when the switch is turned, the lights go off. Under cover of darkness, respectable Harvard citizens are divested of their slim, black pocket secretaries...
...Harrisburg, West Germany's fine jumping team was having things its own way last week. With only two competitors still to jump in the fault and out event, Germany's Olympic Champion Hans Winkler, 32, had cleared the ten jumps faultlessly in 38.6 seconds. Then a slim young Mexican girl galloped to the starting line, her dark hair bobbing out from under her black riding cap in a pert ponytail. Vicki Mariles swept her horse over the rail jump, safely navigated the spread jump, and swept past the finish line in an amazing 36.9 seconds to beat Winkler...
Visiting in London, the early cinema's Mary Pickford, 65, stopped for a visit at the Kensington home of her slim, well-tailored, onetime stepson: Douglas Fairbanks...
...slim little light-foot guy with his gay, ageless grace had a good excuse for the jitters: this was the first time he had put on a TV show of his own. But aging (59) Dancing Master Fred Astaire needed only to walk into camera range to demonstrate that he is still attuned to his old rhythmic magic, still in charge of his old, easy charm...