Word: slight
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wake of the four-day salute to John Kerry's Vietnam combat record that doubled as the Democratic Convention, political analysts were declaring that given the way undecided voters were leaning, the race was Kerry's to lose. Now he appears to be losing it--or at least that slight edge he had gained. First came the Senator's latest clear-as-mud explanation of his position on the Iraq war; then, more harmfully, came the sabotage by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Just as President Bush and the Republicans take their turn in the spotlight at their gathering...
...Probably the only really persistent issue is slight anxiety about my next book,” she said. “But that probably would been the case anyway...
...dorm has been claimed by a group of eight local high schoolers, so I follow the Model T of the small man in the over-worn sweater and slight facial hair down to the only other thing he has available: “the hut.” It has two lovely single beds, a gas stove, sink, fire place and stacks of wood. I run my hands over the walls to be sure the mischievous late afternoon sun hasn’t camouflaged a light switch, but no luck. The cabin lies on a small man-made lake filled...
...assemble on the aft deck and load up their kits: life jackets, 9-mm Glock semi-automatics, telescopic batons, capsicum spray, handcuffs, assorted tools, water supply, radio. The sailors climb aboard an outboard-powered tender which is lowered into the water. Coxswain Brad Walker thumps the boat into a slight swell on a 20-knot south-easterly, zooming toward the target under a blazing midday...
...when or if their stories will run plagues every journalist; a front page at 6 p.m. can be on page five an hour later. Science writer Leigh Dayton has been lobbying for her exclusive piece on koala leukemia to run; when it's mentioned at conference, someone asks with slight disgust, "Does the koala look like it's got a disease?" The piece makes it in a day later; the picture doesn't. Seeing your stories cut or killed, as Dayton knows after 18 years in journalism, is part of the job. "It's a solid story," she says...