Word: slight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slight smile, the soft, husky Reagan voice. Almost gentle. And yet a bugle call of sorts for 1984. Reagan's enthusiasm grew as he got into his subject. His color heightened. He leaned forward from his couch and worked his hands. Far below his 26th-floor hotel room, the hubbub of the Republican National Convention was rising in anticipation of his acceptance speech that night. Reagan already was far beyond that in his mind, building "America's party" and an "opportunity society...
...world-class competitor in the 1930s, I know that today's tracks are faster, shoes are better and training methods superior. I have seen both Lewis and Owens in action, and would say that they would be dead even in the sprints. Lewis might rate a slight edge in the long jump...
While onlookers placed their mental bets, a slight, pretty, 20-year-old Canadian named Sylvie Bernier found a new consistency to support her delicate and precise style, and took the lead midway through the competition. McCormick, who had overrotated and made a splashing entry on her eighth dive, a reverse 2½ somersault with a tuck, which had given her trouble before, had a chance to win the gold with a superlative score on her tenth and last dive. ("Divin' is just landin' on your head ten times out of ten," she had said after the preliminary round...
...agriculture commissioner, Jim Buck Ross, asked Ferraro if she had ever eaten catfish. "No," she replied. "Then you haven't lived, young lady," he said. The talk turned to blueberries, and the 66-year-old commissioner inquired, "Can you bake a blueberry muffin?" Ferraro smiled tightly. "Sure can." Slight pause. "Can you?" Another pause. "Down here," drawled Ross, "the men don't cook." Later Ferraro gamely noted that the next time she visited Mississippi, she would bring blueberry muffins and Ross would treat her to catfish. "He probably never met a female vice-presidential candidate before," she commented...
...first half, the teams traded possession, with Iraq holding only a slight advantage, causing, for awhile, the most exciting action to come from the Iraqi cheering section...