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Word: slims (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking before the same audience, John Froines, sentenced to six months on other contempt charges, claimed that evidence for the conviction of all but two defendants was extremely slim...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Kunstler Says the 'System' Has a Choice | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Entering the final day of competition, East House continued to maintain a lead over South House in the Radcliffe swimming marathon, but the Margie? was an extremely slim one and a large turnout of swimmers this afternoon could easily reverse the standings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffie Swim Marathon Is Close Battle | 4/10/1970 | See Source »

...chibald Cox '34, Samuel Williston Professor of Law and former U.S. Solicitor General, feels that there is "a relatively slim chance that the law will receive a full hearing by the court." He went on to say that it is much more likely that Massachusetts' complaint will be dismissed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governor Signs Bill Against War | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

Bruce has lived in Harlem all of his life. He nearly lost his life there too on several dozen occasions during his five-year career dealing drugs in the schools and streets. Shy, slim, hip and extremely intelligent, Bruce kicked his three-year-old drug habit at the Addicts Rehabilitation Center in Harlem last summer. He will soon graduate from Harlem Prep and will enter Northwestern University in September, hoping eventually for a Ph.D. in psychology; when he gets it, he plans to return to the ghetto to help rehabilitate drug addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting It Together: The Young Blacks | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

...effective if sometimes demagogic campaigner, and a maverick Democrat who supported Richard Nixon in 1960, Yorty is not expected to win the June primary. But he has a good chance to divide the party and diminish its already slim hopes. That spoiler role is his real goal, say his critics. Though Reagan has scarcely fulfilled, among other promises, his 1966 pledge to put down campus unrest, he has proved a masterly political animal. A recent state poll shows that 75% of the state's voters think that he has done a "good" or "fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Rites of Spring | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

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