Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sorry troupe of dancers as terpsichorean exponents of "Vice, Horrors and Ecstasy," then hurriedly had to schedule extra performances to accommodate the crowds. Among his clients were Soprano Lotte Lehmann, a young redheaded violinist named Eugene Ormandy, and a troupe of Russian modern dancers, one of whose members, a slim, dark-eyed blonde named Nina Schelemskaya-Schelesnaya, later shortened her name to Mrs. Rudolf Bing...
...refrigeration and administered within two weeks before they go stale-a schedule that is all too easily missed in the war-weary countryside. Massive doses of antibiotics such as streptomycin and chloramphenicol often save those stricken with plague, but without early diagnosis and treatment, the chance of recovery is slim...
...campuses of San Francisco and Berkeley, and soon more than 500 nudists each Sunday were wending their way to San Gregorio. "The greatest beach in the world," said one stark-naked Foothill Junior College student, happily surveying the scene. "This is the best incentive I have to stay slim," cried a Botticellian Berkeley coed as she raced into the combing breakers...
...Pudgy and sometimes petulant as a bobbysoxer, Luci has evolved into a slim, articulate, engaging girl-woman who has been able to weather the limelight with considerable poise and-it seems to some-greater relish than her pleas for privacy would suggest. The impression she conveys obviously concerns her. Though she only turned 19 on July 2, she abhors the stereotype of the teen-age marriage, points out bravely that her own and Pat's ages average out to 21. On this score her mother, who was 21 and a college graduate before she married, says reassuringly: "I think...
Before 40, one adds and feeds to gorge the ego; after 40, one subtracts and simplifies to slim the soul. With the final image of one's existence even faintly in view, the self seems pettier and the words "service," "love of others," "compassion" not only creep into the middle-ager's vocabulary but add meaning to his life. In church work, social work, community fund drives, culture centers, middle-agers are always at the fore. Sol Linowitz, 52, chairman of the executive committee of Xerox Corp., defines his abiding purpose: "I want to leave the world...