Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...particular, they entertain hopes, however slim, that G. Gordon Liddy, one of the convicted Watergate conspirators who up to now has maintained stoic silence, may talk. Also scheduled to testify this week are former re-election committee officials Robert Reisner, Hugh Sloan Jr., Maurice Stans and Liddy's secretary, Sally Harmony...
...Slim green poplar saplings line the dirt road to the Hsuan Wu May Seventh Cadre School, 30 miles from Peking along the banks of the Tsao Pai River. Orchards of apples, pears and peaches are neatly marked off, surrounded by a fresh red brick wall. Rice shoots are be ginning to sprout in well-irrigated fields, and the hogs are fattening. It seems like a typical commune, except that the farm hands are all from the city - 200 schoolteachers, office workers and party cadres who have gone off to the countryside for six months of consciousness raising, Chinese style...
...Swiss constitution. One banned Jesuits from work in schools or churches; the other forbade them (and other orders) to open any new religious houses or reopen ones closed by the government. Last week in a national referendum the two articles were finally repealed-and only by a slim majority of voters, most of them Catholics, who only recently have edged out Protestants as the country's largest religious group. Before the referendum, anti-Jesuit campaigners marched through Zurich streets calling Jesuits "lackeys of fascism." Others voiced an outdated fear that Jesuits would seek to make Switzerland a Catholic state...
...card cheats and thieves are constant problems. But Amarillo Slim claims to have surmounted them all. He files his tax return as a professional billiard player and lists his income under sundry commissions. He knows the top cheats by sight and keeps abreast of the latest developments in their techniques and hardware. He has been robbed on occasion-recently he and his bodyguard were stripped naked by three gunmen-but usually the money is returned when the thieves realize that they have hit a man with some acquaintances in the underworld...
...want any more than what Ah have." Which is just as well. After five hours of rough hold 'em, Slim was busted by Jack "Tree Tops" Strauss, another tall Texan, in a $9,000 pot. At week's end, Strauss and five other survivors were battling for Slim's title-and the total bank...