Word: slight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Students know too little and their command of essential skills is too slight...
...With slight smiles of bemusement, the locals in Pelopi show off the property where the Dukakis house once stood, the village register where the Dukakis births are listed, and . . . Well, that about sums up the tour. Pelopi is an unassuming village, not given to ostentation over potential Presidents -- at least not yet. "If he wins, and I don't die first, maybe we'll put up a plaque for him," wisecracks Iacovos Manolis, 81, who built his house on top of the ruins of the Dukakis homestead...
...moves seem aimed at wooing white moderates to the ruling National Party, which has steadily lost voters to the ultraright Conservative Party. Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu dismissed Botha's proposals as "slight adjustments to the evil system" of apartheid...
Moran was on the swim team her freshman year, swimming sprint freestyle races. She also played some water polo when swimming season ended. Moran had a slight advantage as a Harvard freshman because her AAU swim team used to play some water polo...
...characters in White Mischief behave as if they were suffering from a slight but unshakable fever. In some victims the chief symptom is a languid indifference to conventional morality. In others the illness manifests itself in a restless pursuit of the usual home remedies for boredom: drugs, alcohol and, of course, outrageous sex. You could blame this malaise on Kenya's equatorial weather -- bound to have a curious effect on the dank blue blood of English aristocrats. More likely, though, the idle colonial social climate, circa 1940-41, is doing them in. With too much time on their hands...