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Word: slimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Here the danger is perhaps greater. Other planes from Gabon loaded with arms and ammunition also join the pattern; sometimes as many as 20 ships are circling simultaneously, some assigned the same altitudes by inexperienced Biafran ground controllers. The sight of fire-bright exhausts in the African night is slim comfort to other flyers. Says Swedish Pilot Ulf Engelbrecht: "If all the pilots some night were to turn on rotating beacons and clearance lights, a dozen of them would die of fright at their proximity to one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biafra: Come on Down and Get Killed | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...Monday night, I went down to the Jazz Workshop to hear The Chicago Blues Allstars (a group put together by Muddy Waters to tour the country--Johnny Shines on guitar, Shaky Walter Horton on harmonica, Sunnyland Slim on Piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Clifton James on drums), a rare collection of great individual artists who grew up in the south and later moved to Chicago. Shaky Walter and Johnny Shines met in Memphis after Johnny Shines had travelled and played with one of the greatest and most innovative blues people, Robert Johnson (who was killed...

Author: By Tom Guralnick, | Title: Chicago Blues Allstars | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

Winthrop has won the most points in House winter athletics, but Leverett still holds a slim lead in the year long Straus competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lions Sparkle in Winter But Bunnies Stay Ahead | 3/19/1969 | See Source »

Defending champion Denver ended Harvard's slim upset hopes with a four-goal second period and coasted to a one-sided 9-2 victory in the semifinal round of the NCAA championships last night at Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs...

Author: By Mark H. O donoghue, | Title: Pioneers Thrash Crimson In Semifinals of NCAA's | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

Harvard's highest finish in the NCAA competition was third in 1955, and its chances of bettering, or even equaling, that finish seem slim...

Author: By Mark H. Odonoghue, | Title: Skaters Test Powerhouse Denver in NCAA's | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

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