Word: slight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, pressed for an explanation about that 1941 luncheon, the Foreign Office declared, with a slight frog in its throat, that its "research had produced no record of any such meeting." Winston
More Peace & Quiet. The Viscount 700 takes off with little noise. Inside the cabin, it is no noisier than in a passenger automobile. The vibration is so slight that coins can be stood on their edges and pencils on their ends for 20 minutes at a time. Vickers is counting heavily on the public's reaction to the Viscount's peace & quiet. "Once a passenger has had a ride on a turboprop," said a spokesman, "he won't go back to the noise and vibration of piston engines...
Following pre-game predictions closely, the match was in doubt to the end with the Indians dominating the doubles, and Coach Jack Barnaby's varsity holding a slight edge in the singles...
...grey Ford whipped along the back-country gravel roads, stirring up a trail of dust. Braking to a stop alongside a flat field, the car's slight and sunburned driver sighted down mile-long rows of tiny green shoots, planted the week before. "Ain't that beautiful?" grinned Lester Pfister. He raced on to another field, wiggled his wiry 126 lbs. through a barbed-wire fence, and squatted on the ground where one of his tractors had just passed. "Everything's good," he said, feeling the soil. "You can tell it's time for planting when...
...about the same as with a control group who had been given the more dangerous electric shock treatment. The doctors also found that patients who were first given histamine reacted better when given electric shock. In another series of treatments on 48 office patients with histamine alone, eleven showed slight improvement and 17 "moderate to marked" improvement...