Word: slimming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under present arrangements, moving the tape any faster would not be practical. In most brokerage houses, as in the Stock Exchange itself, the tape is projected onto-and moves across-a slim, horizontal screen usually 5 ft. long. Even if the ticker could print faster, viewers would have a hard time reading...
...Hassan does not inherit the instinctive respect his father commanded. The slim, doe-eyed young king has a well-developed taste for fast cars, fleet horses and rapid starlets. Hassan was often in the company of pretty. 28-year-old French Actress Etchika Choureau, who, for three years, lived across the street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped...
That same year she laid the foundation for her European career. A manager friend of hers had asked her to sing an audition at Carnegie Hall, without saying who was to hear her. As she started to sing, she noticed a "slim, good-looking man with salt-and-pepper hair eating a club sandwich." Midway through the audition, the slim man abandoned his sandwich, excitedly pushed the accompanist aside and rushed Leontyne through Pace, pace mio Dio! from La Forza del Destino. "I then learned," says she, "that it was Herbert von Karajan...
...nothing more than a bad cold. But even a well-trained cadet or midshipman, going short of sleep during the holiday social whirl and plunging into a tough round of studies, may be a pushover. Most susceptible are young women who are going short of food (to keep slim) or of sleep. They usually have the severest, longest-lasting cases...
...Slim, swaggering and handsome, Lagaillarde liked to race hot-rods on the twisting mountain roads above the Chiffa gorge, was soon known locally as a casse-tout, or hellraiser. He believed that Algeria belonged to its French colonizers, distrusted Arabs, and eagerly embraced every right-wing idea from anti-Communism to antiSemitism. Popie was small, shy and intellectual, and his credo read: "I am an Algerian. I believe that Europeans can live in close friendship with the Moslems even if Algeria becomes independent...