Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dying hours of 1954, the deed at last was done. By the narrow but still sufficient margin of 27 votes, the French National Assembly ratified West German rearmament within NATO...
League A Deacons managed a one point margin, 39-38, and the B league entry turned a single basket into a 34-32 victory...
These votes will be examined abroad with severity." The M.R.P.'s strategy was clear. Let the Paris accords pass, so that Mendes would get the blame for German rearmament. Make the margin ungraciously thin, so that Mendes would get no glory from it. But Mendes' failure to pose a vote of confidence gave many a Deputy an opportunity to register his dislike of Mendes and the Germans...
...when disclosure might prevent harm or danger' to others, wrote Surgeon Edward Clifton Dawson in the British Medical Journal. A big majority of polled doctors and laymen agreed that if a railroad engineer suffers from epilepsy but refuses to tell his employers, the doctor should do so. The margin was much narrower in favor of his telling the police the name of an abortionist that he had learned from a patient...
...football league, trotted onto Cleveland's Municipal Stadium field last Sunday to play the Detroit Lions, best in the West, for the 1954 football championship of the U.S. The game was figured close: the Lions, champs for the past two years, were the favorites by a slight margin. But the Browns went wild and won in a stunning, runaway upset. Score...