Word: slight
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...consider this a radical position, but recent reactions to the slogan have shown that many others do. In addition to the usual skepticism, responses have run the gamut from slight amusement to overt hostility...
Columbia played with a slight advantage because it is the only school to compete on clay courts. But, said Fish, "They beat us fair and square...
...percentage of minorities admitted rose from 22.5 percent last year to 23.1 percent this year, though the number of Blacks admitted suffered a slight decrease, officials said...
According to the city manager's report, budget figures for fiscal year 1985 exceed last year's revised estimates by almost $9 million. The increased expenditures will probably require a "slight increase" in taxes next year, including a nine cent hike in water bills, the report said...
...Slight, bespectacled and grandfatherly in appearance, Cayetano Carpio was often called the Ho Chi Minh of the Salvadoran revolutionary movement. By 1947 he had joined the illegal Salvadoran Communist Party, eventually becoming its general secretary. In 1970 he broke with the party. Fanatically secretive, he was the chief exponent of "prolonged popular warfare," a hard-line strategy that would in his view probably culminate in direct confrontation with the U.S. Increasingly, it also conflicted with the view officially espoused by the other F.M.L.N. members, that the revolutionaries should negotiate a vague power-sharing agreement with the Salvadoran government...