Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dining hall had been the proving ground for his first plays. Now he was again roaming through the House and holding forth in the common room, playing the house grad made good on the outside and loving every minute of it. He looked quite the serious playwright, too, smoking slim cigarillos, and sporting a well-trimmed beard and a natty continental suit. But his mood contained more nostalgia than triumph...
Other obsolete missiles lay around on the ground, waiting for the Air Force to build a museum to house them--a Snark, like the air-breathing monster that ran wild over South America and landed in a jungle in Brazil; a Skybolt; a Minuteman model, slim, looking like three bullets, glued one on top of the other...
...even more traumatic experience: a man lured her into an alley and assaulted her. At eight, she learned why classmates jeered "half-caste!" at her: her father had been a white G.I. At 16, she was a full-fledged prostitute working among American soldiers who liked her slim Occidental legs and ample breasts...
Yale struck back as end Mark Young bobbled but held onto a 40-yard touchdown strike to make it 14-13. After the kickoff Harvard extended its slim lead by marching 59 yards on the ground in three minutes. Goldberg, Hicks, and Berg carried most of the way, with Goldberg scooting for he touchdown from he four yardline...
Harold Wilson's first year as Prime Minister has been a prolonged election campaign--a desperate race to make Labour the party of government in the minds of the British voters before death or sickness cut his slim majority out of power. At no time in that campaign has he appeared stronger than he does now: the pound has steadied and the balance of payments deficit may be halved in 1966. The Daily Telegraph polls show Wilson leading the Conservatives by over 7 1/2 per cent. "He has established himself," one political commentator said last week, "as the Indispensable...