Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC. 9-11 p.m.).* Dr. Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Stanley Kubrick's outrageously wild but sobering satire about nuclear war. Starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn and Slim Pickens...
...able to take a few party posts in 1970, but only because party posts mean little in this state. The FCD is predominately Jewish now in this largely redneck state. Even if the FCD joins a real coalition of black-browns, and white liberals, they would stand only a slim chance of controlling party candidates in the conservative party...
West Virginia (7): With kickback and tax-evasion scandals erupting in the Democratic state administration, Nixon holds a slim lead...
...wards. But a substantial number of those votes might have gone to Nixon this year because of the "law-and-order" issue, and now may be denied him. In any case, despite signs of rising Wallace strength in Missouri, Indiana, Nebraska, Kentucky, Montana and Wyoming, there is only a slim chance that he will throw a deadlocked election to the House of Representatives. Still, with seven weeks to go, there is enough time for events in Paris, Viet Nam or the ghettos?or a serious campaign gaffe?to scramble all the equations...
Homer's slim volume, titled The Bond Buyer's Primer, is actually a collection of 21 "lessons" written intermittently since 1961. They cover such topics as "One Hundred Ways to Say 'No' to a Bond Salesman," and "How (Not) to Explain the Bond Market to Your Wife," and Homer starts off by dividing all bond salesmen into twelve species. They include Legatus Caelestis, or Messenger from Mount Olympus, who "brings you eternal verities from on high (his firm's research department) "; Garrulus Defatigare, or Sophisticate, who bears "a bored air of nonchalance and yards...