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Word: slimming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...magic, thick woods had been torn down, empty fields were clustered with concrete mixing plants, fuel tanks and mess halls. Chillingly clear to the expert eye were some 40 slim, 52-ft., medium-range missiles, many of them already angled up on their mobile launchers and pointed at the U.S. mainland. With an estimated range of 1,200 miles, these missiles, armed with one-megaton warheads, could reach Houston. St. Louis -or Washington. The bases were located at about ten spots, including Sagua la Grande and Remedios on the northern coast, and San Cristobal and Guanajay on the western...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Showdown | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...Determined to outdo the traditional 21-gun salute that Ben Bella got on the White House lawn, Castro had an old Communist satellite gimmick to impress his guest-a 21-tank salute. As the long rifles of the Russian-built tanks barked their welcome, the bearded Cuban gave the slim Algerian rebel a mighty abrazo and then led him to the microphones. Said Castro: "To make this visit at a time when the powerful Yankee empire has redoubled its hostility against our country ... is, on your part, Señor Premier, an act of courage and a gesture we shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Double Traveler | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Since then, capitalizing on the same combination of audacity, ingenuity and persuasiveness, slim, strong-minded Garfield Weston, 64, has built the biggest business ever fashioned by a Canadian-a food-processing and retailing empire that reaches into nine countries on four continents and last year ran up sales of $3.4 billion. The world's biggest baker and one of its three biggest grocers,* Weston has 400 supermarkets in Europe alone. Among his holdings: the U.S.'s National Tea Co., Canada's Loblaw Groceterias, Australia's Tip Top Bakeries, Britain's huge (more than 200 subsidiaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retail Trade: The Sweet Smell of Bread | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Dartmouth's cross country team has defeated Harvard only twice in the last ten years. The Indian harriers will try to make it three when they face the Crimson tomorrow in Cambridge. Their chances are slim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Expect Victory Against Dartmouth Today | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...sharpened by a plastic surgeon. His opinions did not need sharpening. He has often refused TV work, not wanting to swim in "the haunted fish tanks." He describes theater folk as "messy, sloppy, opinionated people, and if you can't stand them, you should go off and write slim volumes of poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Faces: Lawrence of Leeds | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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