Word: marginally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fence in the sky is going up fast. This year the Administration approved an added $1 billion for air defense, and more increases are in prospect. The estimated cost now runs to more than $4 billion a year. With the money, General Chidlaw can give the U.S. a growing margin against calamity; he can promise no more. "It is better," says Ben Chidlaw, quoting an old Cheyenne chief, "to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand...
...ears, the Assembly's powerful Foreign Affairs Committee took a vote. This was the formidable body that had doomed EDC, 24 to 18. Now, by a combination of ayes, nays and abstentions, it recommended ratification of German rearmament, by a majority of but one vote.*By this narrow margin, Mendes, man of close shaves, had got past another difficulty. Next week the Assembly itself will debate ratification...
Since the paper's owners view the Times "first as a responsibility and second as a business," the declining profits of the Times are not the major reason for the changes. But the profit margin of the paper, one of the wealthiest in the U.S., has dropped so fast that it is a cause for concern. Last year's strike, said Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, cut the paper's earnings to "virtually nothing." The fact that the Times can make money at all is something of a publishing miracle in the face of its overhead...
...that he found some diverting and even arresting reading. The novelists, for all their technical skill, seemed unable to cope effectively with their time, man's fate or even man's heart. And the reading public was on to the situation: nonfiction outsold fiction by a wide margin...
...Friars upset Brown last Monday, 5 to 2, and lost to powerful Boston College by a slight 4-2 margin. The last Eagle goal was scored in the final minute of play, when Providence had taken out the goalie to press with a six-man attack...