Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last night's balanced scoring and crisp passing marked a definite improvement from the cagers' sloppy play earlier in the season. Rebounding remains a problem, however, as the hoopsters have had slim pickings under the boards...
...crude landing strip, the party split up as its leaders tried to decide how to get everyone in the Otter and a smaller five-passenger Cessna brought in to help take the defectors out. A slim youth boarded the Cessna. "Watch him," one of the defectors warned Ryan. The Congressman, the newsmen and most of the fleeing cultists prepared to get into the larger craft. Then a tractor pulling a long trailer approached the field. The three men standing in the trailer did not appear to be armed, but the departing cultists were terrified...
Clinging to a slim lead throughout the second half, a stray Harvard shot with over three minutes left gave Bentley, trailing by just a single point, the ball and brought the Bentley fans to their feet...
...from Akron, which is probably worse. At least the band thinks so. Life in places like Akron--the factory routine, the Big Macs, the repression of natural instincts--may not literally "de-evolve" people, but it probably induces the social equivalent. The scientific basis for de-evolution seems pretty slim, but if you ignore the theory's crackpot side and think of it as a particularly inelegant form of social comment, it hits the mark...
...will be a long, long time before things are normal again in the Levittown schools. The strike's bitterness reverberates harshly. "The teachers' union was for the teachers," says Dawn Fishbein, a slim and intense MacArthur senior. "But the board of education was supposed to be for us. Instead, it was a board of taxation." Says Rae Anne Caponi, Sabato's sister: 'Tm so glad to be back. But I'm worried about college credit courses and advanced placement tests." In Rae Anne's first psychology class, the teacher asked if anyone wanted...