Word: faintest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view expressed in its seminars, in its miscellaneous gatherings, and around the lunch table. In particular I have myself under the general auspices of the Center published one small book and a number of articles dealing with African affairs, on none of which have I ever had the faintest suggestion that they should reflect or embody and particular point of view...
...other demands are equally distorted or unreal. The reference to Medical School building plans is not only inaccurate but simply untrue. The reference to "construction" of the Kennedy School of Government names a site where there is not the faintest intention of erecting any University facility. The Kennedy School, if it is accompanied at all in the new John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library complex, will find a place only in a combined international-public administration section hundreds of yards from the apartments in question. Both the sloppiness of the demands and the fact that they were in many cases addressed...
...little men in tight black suits who had no function other than being more people, adding support to whatever the authorities said and subtracting courage from whatever impulses of defiance the dazed team members could muster. The one assigned to shunt us from room to room had just the faintest suggestion of eyes beneath foot-thick glasses with huge black plastic frames. The curl of his lips when he yanked Dave Gordon half-dressed from the dressing room for the "dress rehearsal" was enough to grow boils on your heart. "Every minute is costing us money," he said...
...effective political opponents during the long dictatorship of Portugal's Premier, Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Though the Portuguese themselves are neither particularly prudish nor incorruptible, Salazar's puritanical regime, with the help of a highly efficient police organization, has always tried to silence even the faintest whisper of vice in high places. Last week, however, Salazar's regime failed in its efforts to squelch the worst public scandal in its 40 years of rule...
Still, Nehemiah's decision is the predictable conclusion of a life of forgetting. He has bequeathed his children a life free of the faintest taint of the holocaust; a life which, despite the benefits of European skills and culture, he would have cherished for himself...