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Word: slims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liberals will keep talking abeut how bad everything is. It's a real tragedy; we were so close." Moynihan also warned that if the welfare-reform bill fails this year, it will not become law for ten years. Certainly the chances of reviving it at this session are slim. It could come to the floor next year-perhaps under Democratic sponsorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Congress: The Session in Between | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...imports. Cooler heads in all nations warn that such a cycle of retaliation and counterretaliation, carried to the extreme, can have the most chilling consequences. The last such spiral began during­and did much to deepen­the Great Depression. But the margin for good sense is slim, as the world teeters on the brink of a trade war that no one wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trade: The Black Comedy That Could Come True | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

While the 69 names include several persons whom the Corporation has not had time to check completely, Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, said the opportunity of adding names was still open, but chances were very slim...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: List of 69 for Presidency Proves Confusing | 11/20/1970 | See Source »

Most pollsters now give Byrd a slim lead over Rawlings, with Garland a poor third...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: An Assault on the Senate From Maine to Wyoming Presidential Hopefuls And National Unknowns Face the Nixon-Agnew Onslaught | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...though she is being singled out for her individuality, her good spirits, or her charm. A street confrontation is never personal; it is always, in Buber's terms, an I-It relationship, never I-Thou. The woman must always be made to feel like an object under appraisal. Slim and rich, like a good cigarette. Soft, like a pair of slippers. Sleek...

Author: By Elizabeth R. Fishel, | Title: Paranoia Walking the Streets | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

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