Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mexico's 60th President stepped out onto the balcony of the austere National Palace, the sun burst through the overcast, warming the sea of upturned faces below. But the most radiant face of all belonged to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the brainy backlands lawyer on whose slim frame outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos draped the green, white and red sash of office. With arms outstretched in triumph and a huge, toothy grin creasing his dark, homely countenance, President Diaz Ordaz looked as if he would like nothing better than to hug the officials clustered around...
...rationale for its action, the Justice Department explained that its chances of winning such a law suit in Mississippi were very slim from the beginning. In other words, if white Mississippians think nothing of legality, why should we? The answer to this question is, of course, to turn the question around: If we think nothing of legality, why should they...
...Philadelphia case signals a break with the government's record of timidity and half-measures. The FBI acted there, though chances of conviction were slim, simply because the evidence and a sense of justice demanded action. Prejudiced juries may eventually ignore that evidence, out this time at least fear of those juries did not coerce the government into ignoring it. The eventual trial may result in injustice, but there will at least be a trial...
...68th. During their youth in Barcelona, Manolo buddied with Picasso, later followed him to Paris. But while cubism whirled around him. Manolo turned to classicism, recalled his native Catalonia with slim-limbed toreros and squat, chunky senoritas. On display are 23 stone and bronze sculptures, plus drawings and watercolors. Through...
...accordions still filled with air. The truck raced away from the loading area, but it was soon caught by pursuing motorcycle police, who took the two nearly hysterical Egyptians and their baggage to a police station. When the cops opened the trunk they goggled at the contents: a slim, blond young man, strapped into an adjustable chair, with his head encased in a sort of crash helmet and his feet thrust into shoes nailed to the floor of the trunk. Small ventilating holes had been drilled into the sides to let him breathe...