Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital. The I.L.A. was in a jam. Now before the NLRB is an appeal from its archrival, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-backed International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, for an election to determine collective bargaining jurisdiction in the Port of New York. Twice the I.L.A. had scraped through such elections by slim margins-the last time (in 1954) by 263 (out of 18,551) votes...
...Queen Surrounded. In portraying John, Author Rowse takes his cues and many a quote from the latter-day Sir Winston's Blenheim prose palace, the six-volume, 2,561-page Marlborough, His Life and Times. John was slim and handsome, brave as a lion, as full of twists as a corkscrew. He was ambitious beyond belief, but never lost his temper or learned to spell. Through sheer brilliance he worked himself up to the rank of general. But it was not until Queen Anne came to the throne that John Churchill had the chance to astonish Europe. And even...
When the ballots were counted last week, Alexander Wiley was the winner, thanks principally to a heavy 20,000-vote lead in normally Democratic Milwaukee County. Total vote: Wiley 217,402; Davis 207,693. Wiley had had a close call. Of the 445,625 G.O.P. votes, Wiley's slim margin was only 10,000. A third Republican, Howard H. Boyle Jr., 35-who ran on an anti-Eisenhower platform-got 20,000 that might otherwise have gone to Davis. Nonetheless, Wiley should have no trouble in November against Democratic Nominee Henry W. Maier, 38, a state senator, who cashed...
...stealthy Malayan jungle war against the British, slim, scar-faced Yang Kuo slipped in and out of villages and rubber plantations under a dozen aliases, and boasted to Communist comrades that five British imperialists had died for each of his assumed names. From rain-forest hideaways, he trained and indoctrinated terrorists with such skulking zeal that he rose to the post of secretary of his state committee and finally to the job of vice secretary-general of the Malayan Communist Party...
Honor More. In the Byronic manner, Char's life is part of his poetry. His first poems appeared in 1929 when he was 22. A slim volume titled Arsenal sold 26 copies; in his job as a whisky and champagne salesman, he had found less trouble disposing of his wares. Later he took over the family business (building supplies) in his native village near Avignon. It was the war that changed him from a drifter into a dedicated man, and how it happened is the subject of a diary he published under the pen name Hypnos...