Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desperate desire to win. All through the summer, Von Trips, 33, and Phil Hill, 34, of Santa Monica, Calif., teammates in Italian Auto Magnate Enzo Ferrari's racing contingent, had dueled across the Continent for the world title.* Before the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, the pale, slim German nobleman was just in front of the taut, nervous American in the competition for the Grand Prix championship. Victory at Monza would have given him the title...
Just Blues (Memphis Slim; Prestige). A collection of original blues by a singer with a voice alive with meaningful inflections. The laments are universal: "Ah walked into a beer tavern To give a girl a nice time Ah had forty-five dollars when ah entered. When ah lef, ah only had one dime. Was she a beer-drinkin' woman? Don't you know, man, don't you know...
Tunisia's Mongi Slim took the floor to appeal desperately for U.S. support. But as a friend of both Tunisia and France, the U.S. could not afford to take sides. Instead, Tunisia got the stifling verbal embrace of the Soviet Union. Sounding trumpet calls against "Western imperialism," Russian Delegate Platon Morozov soon left Tunisia and its problems far behind. With a rattling of nuclear rockets, Morozov threatened instant erasure to those countries that continue to permit the establishment of U.S., British and French bases...
...observed, the West may expect nothing more than one more verbal flogging for "imperialism" and colonialism, along with exhortations for everyone, especially the West, to disarm completely-and, of course, to give aid generously. Hopes for any Afro-Asian condemnation of Soviet imperialism in Eastern Europe are relatively slim. Nehru, for one, tends to pass over irritating disputes as a sort of natural legacy of "the continent of hate...
...umpire's rewards are slim. Traveling seven months of the year, working seven-day weeks, he is paid a starting major-league salary of $7,500, can work up to a top of about $18,000. But for all that, ex-ballplayers, would-be ballplayers who never got beyond the bush leagues, and fans with the hankering and the nerve to brave the insults and the perils of umpiring keep the majors well supplied with raw stock. "It's an unnatural life," says Umpire Augie Donatelli, who came out of the Pennsylvania coal country and took up umpiring...