Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert J. Flechtner Jr., 29, a slim Christian Scientist who works as a paper salesman, likes to tinker with hotrods on the side...
With the winter House athletic season entering the home stretch, Kirkland looks like a good bet to increase its slim 5 1/2 point lead in the Straus Trophy race...
Marina Oswald, 22, sat at a table in Parchey's Restaurant in Washington. Ten feet away were two vigilant Secret Service agents. Slight and slim at about 5 ft. 2 in. and 98 Ibs., she had had her .hair set in a beauty parlor-something her late husband would not have allowed. She wore touches of makeup-something her husband had frowned upon. She lit a cigarette and smoked it-something he had disapproved...
...field into a shantytown of crude huts housing 2,500 people. Lima's slums are growing ten times faster than the city itself; 450,000 live in slums today, compared with 120,000 in 1957. For nearly all, the chances of ever rising out of the slums are slim. The man finds odd jobs; the mother sells pumpkin seeds and peanuts on street corners, while the children hawk papers, lottery tickets, or rummage in garbage cans for scraps...
...doesn't dig it is digging his social grave. Harvard boys, ordering another round of drinks, rasp: "Play it again, Sam." Raising their glasses, they say: "Here's looking at ya, kid!" And when they're getting ready to blow the joint, they ask: "Ya ready, Slim?" When they want to express arrogance or individuality, they spit: "I don't have to show you no stinking badge." That line is so popular that one group pledged to write it into examination essays, and professors were soon reading about the "stinking badge" in papers on the French...