Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Left with a lessthan-princely income, the duke's widow, handsome, Greek-born Princess Marina, raised her children modestly. "Puddy," as her daughter is still known to intimates, was the first royal princess to attend boarding school, later took up nursing at a children's hospital. The slim, green-eyed Maid of Kent tickled Londoners by wearing her mother's hand-me-downs and driving a Mini-Minor-and worried them by her avoidance of romantic entanglements. "I could only get married," she once said, "to a man who is tall, rich, and madly in love with...
After the Lakers had taken a slim first period lead, the torrid shooting and playmaking of Bob Cousy and brilliant defense work of Bill Russell in the second quarter wrecked the western division champions. Boston led 66-52 at the half, and sever trailed after that...
...British consul arrived from Boston and joined ranks at the head of a troop of Minute Men dressed in Revolutionary garb. "Odaaaah-HOO!" the leader cried; or at any rate, that was the gist of what he said. The consul snapped his heels together, standing tall, slim, wearing a proper bowler and a double-breasted navy pinstripe. British tailoring, you know, jacket rather shorter than American. Nipped in at the waist Righto...
...With its slim pillars and airy grillwork, the house rises coolly from the hot, harsh Indian landscape. Inside, a many-plumed fountain plays in the lofty reception hall, whose interior walls, repeating the grille motif, rise majestically to the shallow, ruler-straight roof. A sculpturally handsome staircase spirals upward to the private quarters, which are ranged around the two-story-high central hall. The clean, modified-Mogul lines of Roosevelt House reveal the fine hand of Architect Edward D. Stone, whose U.S. embassy chancery in New Delhi (TIME, Jan. 12, 1959) established the grille as an adornment of contemporary architecture...
Boston kept a slim advantage through the first quarter, and led 37 to 30 early in the second. The Royals then exploded for nine straight points in two minutes, but the Celts quickly regained the lead, leading 68 to 64 at the half...