Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night world of San Francisco, Fillmore Slim, Soulful Spider and Bobby Joe from Baltimo' practice the same profession. All three are black players in "the game"-pimps in the world of prostitution. They and about 40 of their fellows, along with the hundred prostitutes who support them, are the principals in a study submitted to the annual convention of the American Anthropological Association. That study is about to earn a Ph.D. and a professorship for its author, a shapely, 27-year-old redhead who, as "Tiger Red," recently completed a stint as a topless (and sometimes bottomless) barroom...
Harvard carried a slim 2-1 lead into the final period, but Vermont had not offered a single threatening offensive rush throughout the first two periods. The Cats never did mount that challenge, but two careless defensive plays put the Crimson behind before the third period was two minutes...
...still wrought no definitive law on the big issues. Locked in a single, unwieldy piece of legislation were proposals for restrictions on trade, increases in Social Security benefits and portions of the Administration's far-reaching reform of the welfare system. Each passing day decreased the already slim chance that they could get through the Senate as a package or singly...
...criticism came into focus last fall with the publication in Britain of a slim volume called Secular Evangelism. In a plea for soft-sell evangelism, the book argues that "by attempting to bulldoze adolescent minds into orthodoxy of belief we are . . . making it more difficult for earnest seekers after the truth to be real persons." It urges evangelists to seek "people before converts." That did not sit too well with the Salvation Army, for whom soul winning is still the basic objective. Worse yet, the author was Salvation Army Major Fred Brown of Regent Hall, one of the Army...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Slim, 79, leader of the "forgotten army" that liberated Burma from the Japanese in World War II; of a stroke; in London. Low on the priority list for supplies and troop replacements, Slim's 800,000-man force often went to battle as lightly armed as guerrillas. The struggle went on for more than three years until May 1945, when the polyglot army of Indians, Nepalese, Africans and Britons captured the port of Rangoon, virtually ending the Burma campaign...