Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Idaho. Republican Henry Dworshak is almost home free for a fourth election, but Democrats cling to a slim hope that Bob McLaughlin, their attractive, aggressive young candidate, may yet turn out to be a sleeper...
...Crimson suffered a similar almost win in the Big Three Championships two weeks ago. Racing from the Yale Yacht Club, they tailed both Princeton and the Elis by a slim point margin...
...trouble is that Marie's husband is himself at odds with his background yet determined to force his wife to melt into it. The members of the clan jolly her with well-meant but offensive pleasantries ("Beware, madame! You're too slim; we like them well covered"); one old aunt shows her joy at their visit to her house by filling her mouth with orange water and squirting them with it. Marie resents the dirty restaurants, and he gets even by suggesting a local delicacy, grilled sheep's testicles. Before long, he manages to devise a hurt...
...chances of an economic upheaval, with expropriations and nationalization, seem equally slim. The N.P.C. [National People's Congress] is a bourgeois reformist party, and while the ideologies of the N.C.N.C. [National Council for Nigeria and the Cameroons] and the Action Group are less clear, their leaders realize that, if they drive away foreign capital, "they will be cutting their own throats...
...These first generation revolutionaries, engaged in the early stages of forced industrialization, seem less humane, and may have less reason to be frightened of nuclear war than the Russians: our present policy gives them incentives towards acquiring, through a reluctant ally or under their own steam, a nuclear "capability." Slim though the chances may be to influence China's internal political life, we must nevertheless seek to end Chin's international quarantine, initiate an exchange of people, ideas and goods, and bring the mainland Chinese into major international negotiations. We must try to change the international atmosphere, to break through...