Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people are sick and tired of witch hunts, of which the Smith Act prosecutions were the high point," burbled suety Philip M. ("Slim") Connelly, Los Angeles editor of the Communist People's World. Gathered around Connelly in a Los Angeles lawyer's office last week was a jubilant quorum of the 14 California Communist leaders in whose cases the U.S. Supreme Court had just ordered acquittal (for five), and new trials (for nine). Spokesman Connelly was giving out the new Red line that Communist martyrdom (including, said Manhattan's Daily Worker, those "sublimely heroic" atom spies, Julius...
...spectator-dotted beach south of Cape Canaveral an Air Force crash boat cut through the Atlantic rollers to wave off small craft. Just before lunch missile buffs spotted "the Bird" through binoculars-a slim, distant white finger pointed against the light blue sky. Bubbling clouds of evaporating LOX (liquid oxygen) obscured the Atlas as technicians completed fueling. But by 2:35 p.m. "T-time" (firing time) was close at hand...
...Slim and stately aboard her official horse Imp, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her official 31st birthday (she was born on April 21, 1926, but British monarchs are feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery...
...Covenanter. Commissioned a sublieutenant, Nuri rode back to Baghdad, slim, handsome in the mustache sprouted in Constantinople, and fiercely proud of his uniform. He became a platoon commander at a Persian border town, and fell in with Jafar al-Askari, a husky, bull-necked Arab a few years his senior. The two became fast friends, and in 1910, as one member of the family puts it, "they gave each other their sisters." Though in accordance with Arab custom Nuri was not introduced to his bride Naima till the wedding day, Jafar arranged for her to catch a glimpse of Nuri...
...slim six-footer at the bar had an unfamiliar face, but to the gamblers in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, he looked like an all right guy. He thumbed his racing form with professional elan and flashed a horse-choking roll of bills when he placed a bet or got quarters for the slot machines. These were such solid credentials that the gamblers never bothered to ask who the stranger...