Word: slimmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Named as the project's overseer was Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, a tall, slim officer who made his name by helping to develop the lean and mean F-16 fighter jet in the 1970s. Abrahamson's office, in a drab rented building two blocks from the White House, is dominated by a large conference table and a blackboard on which he constantly chalks diagrams. Budgeted at $1.4 billion in the current year, the SDI is scheduled to spend some $26 billion over five years. There are fewer than 100 full-time staffers; most of the funds...
...year-old Secretary, aged 64, slim, well-tailored, and youthful, then rose and addressed the approximately 75 students and faculty, reminding them of the U.N.'s mission of preserving the peace "for you young people...
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generation. We abhoe V.G.'s, we slim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give form the first V.G. we encounter, and as they pile up, we decide: C-(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's Consider C-a failure. Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading, "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
Harvard, the only undefeated team in major college hockey, leads the ECAC this week, while Providence, playing impressive hockey at both ends of the ice, holds a slim lead in Hockey East...
...charisma and cannot punch. But the state of the division must hearten him: it is the main reason boxing seems moribund again. When Dempsey went, he was taking boxing with him. Then Louis came along. Marciano. Ali. Sugar Ray Leonard made the welterweights the heavyweights, and this is slim Breland's slender hope too. The first opponent served up to him (from more than a half foot below) was better than the best Cuban he ever fought. "He looked at me like 'Hey, I'm from Brooklyn too,' " Breland said, sorry to be so wide-eyed...