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Word: slimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going into the last race with a three-point margin, the Cliffies kept their slim lead by concentrating on beating M.I.T. Miss Fransson finished second to M.I.T. while Miss Chalmers scored a first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undefeated 'Cliffe Sailors Capture the M.I.T. Regatta | 11/16/1967 | See Source »

Tony Molino, a short, slim, young man, has different ideas. "Ivan and I dreamed up APCROSS in my apartment. We invited Alfredo to join us later on. We want APCROSS to be completely independent of the Centro. The minister's board still pays Alfredo his salary, and we want to be free of any possible church influence. In fact, I can envision APCROSS ultimately taking control of the Centro...

Author: By John Killilea, | Title: II. The South End: 'Puerto Rican Power!' | 11/16/1967 | See Source »

...audio-oriented type who can summon up his French accent and repeat the title aloud several times will be quick to grasp the fact that this slim and learned volume is nothing more than Mother Goose rhymes. The odd effect is created by arranging French words to form homonymic approximations of the familiar English rhymes; the literal translation is always something wildly nonsensical. Thus "Jack and Jill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Maire, si d'hautes . . . | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...However slim the chances that Hanoi will respond to a bombing pause with meaningful negotiations, the opportunity may soon be offered. South Viet Nam's newly elected President Nguyen Van Thieu said again that he would propose a bombing pause if it would lead to reciprocal talks. And it seems clear that the North Vietnamese are listening-both to him and the current U.S. debate. There even seems to be a remote chance that this will lead to talks sooner rather than later. Hanoi's hard-bitten Defense Minister Giap suggested last week that he is convinced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Counterattack | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...Nobel Peace Prize; of pneumonia; in Surrey, England. During half a century of writing punctuated by two world wars, Angell published more than 40 books decrying as illusory any "victory" in war and urging meaningful peace through collective security, most notably in Europe's Optical Illusion, a slim pamphlet first printed in 1909 and then, as it became the subject of a raging controversy, expanded into a book-length The Grand Illusion, which was eventually translated into 15 languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 20, 1967 | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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