Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More accustomed to calculating the breezes, Old Campaigner Gonzales came out ahead, 6-3, 6-3. But the victory gave Pancho only a slim 5-4 lead in the 100-match contest that started in Brisbane and is planned to wander all over the world. So close is the competition that next day in Christchurch, Lew zeroed in on the base line and pounded Pancho's backhand so aggressively that he evened the score in straight sets...
With that, beribboned (two D.S.M.s, two D.S.C.s, a Silver Star) Slim Jim Gavin marched out of the hearing room, leaving behind, instead of a disturbing picture of an Army where high officials barter for stars, a picture of a passionate partisan who played the game and lost...
Last week Kolynos was off the Grey list and Fatt was on the fire. On the very day that he wrote his memo, trim, slim Adman Fatt appeared on his first TV program, the third-degreeish Nightbeat, to support the view that admen really believe in their products. Fatt said he had used Grey-advertised Mennen Hair Creme and Chock Full O' Nuts coffee in his own home that very morning. What about Kolynos toothpaste? He had fallen down there, he conceded in a burst of confidence. Instead of Kolynos he had brushed with Crest, a Procter & Gamble product...
...center Bryant Danner at the end of the firs half marked the turning point of the game at M.I.T.'s Rockwell Cage. The varsity had maintained a narrow lead during the opening minutes, and Tech went ahead, briefly, midway through the period. Although the Crimson quickly regained its slim margin, it was unable to take firm control of the contest until Danner began to hit with three minutes remaining...
...unobtrusively by a side door, abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front door because "a commander must be seen by his troops." Nor has Norstad's youthful appetite for rest disappeared. Though he and Hawaii-born Isabelle Norstad, slim and chic in her Balmain gowns, cannot escape a hectic official social whirl, Norstad makes a ferocious effort to schedule two or three nights a week at home. He ducks off to Berchtesgaden for a weekend's fishing, plays golf when he has a chance, delights...