Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victory kept alive the Crimson's ultra-slim hopes of snagging one of the two NCAA post-season tournament bids awarded to teams from the New England region...
While avenging last year's 1-0 upset loss to the Tigers, the booters improved their season record to 3-5-1 (2-2 Ivy) and kept their slim hopes of earning an NCAA postseason bid alive...
...Towing, says Ferrari, "has always been disastrous. We could drown him or tangle him." Though fresh water will inevitably wear down the oceangoing creature, optimistic experts predict the whale can survive for more than two weeks in the brackish tides of the delta. That gives Humphrey's helpers the slim hope that with time to reconsider his position, he will find his way back to the safe and salty Pacific...
...sometimes a snarling and virtually Oedipal discontent with the U.S. And they came to see, presiding over the nuclear button, the fate of the world, this cowboy, this actor of cowboys. The half-awakened image that they had in mind came from the last 30 seconds of Dr. Strangelove: Slim Pickens clutching his cowboy hat, astride the falling H-bomb, whooping it up, riding "cowboy logic" down the air to global cinders...
...bill--which passed by the slim margin of 77 to 62 in the State Assembly on October 16--was opposed by a number of legislators who called it a violation of citizens' rights. Proponents argued that the requirement is a public health measure, and that the Supreme Court has ruled that driving is a privilege rather than a right...