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Word: slimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reputedly the toughest football conference in the country, and it annually provides about half the teams for the major bowl games. A girl's chances of making these pro-like squads are slim, but if one should, we might witness some interesting new approaches. Girls could be used as decoys with devastating effectiveness. The option play and the belly series might take on completely different meanings., and uniforms would have to be re-designed. The range of possibilities stuns the imagination...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 1/30/1963 | See Source »

Much of the current labor unrest traces to the unions' frustration, and their desire to protect blue-collar jobs threatened by automation. On the docks, where loading machines have steadily been replacing men, a main cause of the current strike was management's attempt to slim down work crews. (The issue has been shunted to an outside study group, which will report next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: On the Defense | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...chances seem slim. Southern Rhodesia's Tobacco Farmer Winston Field, 58, who was sworn in as new Prime Minister last week, intends to divide the land into three "tiers" of racially restricted areas - for whites, Africans and racially mixed families. Though Field insists that his plan is a long way from apartheid, the new black government in Northern Rhodesia will hardly be able to tell the difference. The Northern Rhodesian blacks already have threatened to sever economic ties unless Southern Rhodesia broadens its voting franchise and releases the African nationalists who have been placed under restriction. Otherwise, cried Nationalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Then There Were Two | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean and shy (of sex and praise, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evallonia Revisited | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...same fabric colored purple, cerise or tangerine. The beach-bound set will wander the islands in shirts that follow the Pucci dictum (find two colors that cannot go along quietly, put them together, and toss in five or six more for accents) and accompanying slacks that are cut as slim as decency permits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Cool for a Hot Climate | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

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