Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finals, it was the U.S. against Yugoslavia again, and at halftime the Americans led by the slender margin of three points, 32-29. Then they cut loose. With young Haywood playing like a dervish, popping in baskets and blocking shots, the U.S. put the game out of reach. By a score of 65-50, the team that was thought to be the weakest the U.S. had ever fielded won America's seventh straight gold medal in Olympic basketball...
...world taken over by size 10 miniskirts and baby body stockings there is little left to clothe the "well-kept figure of an adult woman still loved by a man." This becoming feminine pique over fit-and much other comment on the trying 60s-has been incorporated into a slender futurist fantasy. The publisher, somewhat optimistically, asserts that it is a novel. Alas, the lady has tried to cram a statuesque symposium on life, death and manners into a minisheath of story...
...period a year before. The biggest improvement was achieved by Ford, which increased sales by 180% over, last year, when a 49-day strike slowed its business to a crawl. The other three automakers also increased sales: General Motors by 11.7%, Chrysler by 7%, and American Motors by a slender...
...have, for a vast majority of the tens of thousands of claimants have been wronged beyond any state's power to recompense them. Yet the slender thread of civilized existence often seems to hang upon little more than society's fragile agreement to pursue and uphold such imperfect payments and restraints as the law allows. In the process of tracing out the perplexities of just one claim, British Suspense Novelist Lionel Davidson (The Rose of Tibet, The Menorah Men) has created an odd, quiet novel that contemplates the limits of private responsibility and public guilt...
...games remain. Cornell and Rutgers play in Ithaca and this should be about the best game in the country. Rutgers upset Princeton and promises to make a hard run at the Big Red. But most experts (and guessers) expect the Cornell defense to hold firm for a slender 9-6 decision...