Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guevara, a slim asthmatic who keeps a glass inhalator close at hand, becomes the country's economic commissar (while holding onto his auxiliary job as commander of Havana's Cabana Fortress). The son of an Argentine Communist mother, Guevara got his M.D. in Buenos Aires, then decided that "curing nations is more exciting than curing people." He turned up in Red-lining Guatemala of the early 1950s, where the man who was instructed to hire him as an inspector in the Agrarian Department remembers only that Che was identified as a "Communist from abroad." With this sinecure...
...Mongi Slim, delegate from Tunisia regarded as the chief spokesman here for the Algerians, said all the rebels want is a chance to discuss election guarantees and safeguards that would permit Algerians to make a truly free choice in determing their future
...Gaulle an answer they knew he could not accept? The likeliest explanation was that they were counting on a U.N. vote of condemnation against France when the General Assembly debates the Algerian question in the next few weeks, and recognized that their chances of getting one would be slim, unless they made at least a pretense of accepting De Gaulle's call for negotiations...
...nearly three quarters of a century the Yale Daily News maintained this distinction, but several years ago, when it relinquished regular Saturday publication, its slim historical lead began to dwindle. The CRIMSON began daily publication in 1883, just five years after "OCD," as the New Haven paper was formerly known...
...disqualified Harvard and Yale from serious consideration as participants in the NCAA championship tournament. Bridge-port has already been named the New England representative, and a possible at-large bid would probably be offered to Williams or Trinity before either Yale or Harvard received consideration. There remains a slim chance, however, that either the Crimson or the Blue will be chosen, and neither wants to kill its chances by losing today...