Word: slight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resigned as Deputy Foreign Secretary last year. It was equally clear that she did not favor Deputy Speaker Bernard Weatherill. The M.P.s, incensed that the Prime Minister was meddling in a decision that was theirs alone, chose Weatherill. Thatcher, however, had scant time to mull over the slight: she turned to preparing the Queen's speech, which will outline her new legislative program and be delivered this week. Britons will not get their respite from politics for some time...
Kamal's eyes acknowledged a slight pain. Perhaps he was anticipating the familiar adventures in store for them both-the dinner of stuffed sheep's head, the full-dress safari with Bond as the prey, the chase through the bazaar, the fight with the portable buzz saw, the wing-walker aerobatics that would surely end in the Afghan's death. Or was it just a reflex of exquisite boredom on the face of a polo player named Louis Jourdan...
...life's delightful juxtapositions, reasonable people are capable of making memories of events that occurred years before they were born, never letting a technicality that slight exclude them from an argument as rich as the "long count" fight of 1927. Failing to withdraw to a neutral corner, as a new rule required after knockdowns, Dempsey inadvertently allowed Tunney perhaps 14 seconds to defog his head in the seventh round and go on to outpoint Jack for a second time. "The best thing that ever happened to both of us was the long count," Dempsey said a few years...
...despite the accompanying disturbances for students in the spring. But he also acknowledges that last year "we had to sacrifice some quality for time" at the end of the summer, as the College's opening date approached. "We took care of the glaring deficiencies, but if there was a slight blemish on the wall, we let it go," he adds. However, even with the jump in beginning and the determination not to skimp on quality, days will continue to begin with early morning construction clatter--at least at Adams and Claverly--until at least December, officials anticipate...
...reduce the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. Their conclusion: the most consequential actions in nuclear arms control may be those "modest but real steps toward unproved safety that can be taken now." This thought comes at an auspicious moment for the U.S.: the Reagan Administration is showing signs, however slight, of progress in its own efforts to strike a nuclear bargain with Congress...