Word: slimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radcliffe students also expressed greater favor than Harvard men on partial surrender of American sovereignty. A slim majority of the girls favored a serious attempt at international federation or world government, while, among Harvard students, the opponents were in the majority...
...pants held up by a length of clothesline, prefers a walkup on Rome's outskirts to a garret on arty Via Margutta ( "too expensive and too phony") Work for Kicks. There are an estimated 500 U.S. painters, sculptors and writers in Italy today. Living on shoestring savings and slim scholarships (average annual grant: $2,500 to $3,000). most are trying to stretch their pennies into more time for their art. They have nothing but scorn for their beatnik contemporaries of San Francisco, and they cold-shouldered shaggy, beatnik Poet Gregory Corso. who stormed into Rome recently bawling...
...government decides not to wait out that slim prospect, the R.C.A.F. is ready with three choices of aircraft, narrowed from an international list: Grumman's F11F-1F Super Tiger, Republic's F-105 Thunderchief and France's Dassault Mirage III. Whatever the choice, Ottawa would insist that Toronto's idle Avro plant be licensed to make it in Canada...
Crimson captain Albie Gordon has a slim chance in the 440 against a group of excellent performers led by Basil Ince of Tufts, who turned in a 46.7 effort last Saturday. Frank Yeomans is the varsity's best hope in the sprints...
...lights go low at Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter nightclub. Onto the stage glides a slim-hipped, broad-shouldered man in white tie and tails. He grasps his partner, a stunning redhead in black tights, whirls her over his head on one arm, hurls her dramatically in a split-legged fall to the floor. The dance team is Nicholas Darvas and his half-sister, Julia, one of the top acts in the U.S. What the tired businessmen watching the show do not realize is that Hungarian-born Nicholas Darvas, 39, is a better moneyman than most of them...