Word: slight
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...can’t stop thinking that everyone in the room is staring at my obvious fraudulence, but really, no one has given me a second glance. I walk with a slight limp (due to a pulled quadriceps) and pray that it translates to a cocky strut. I can’t stop sneering...
Suggs shouts out the bingo numbers in a slight Tennessee twang, and soon, the first bingo is called. The winner is Christine Thai, a short MIT senior dressed like a male high school debater. Her prize: a box of “dirty” fortune cookies that comes in a takeout container bearing a picture of a grinning, slanty-eyed coolie bent in a deep bow. She passes the fortunes around the table. Mine: “Tight buns drive me nuts...
There’s a slight confusion over the developments in the Middle East, as Marie G. Perpingnant mistakes an insurrection for a resurrection. Her classmates helpfully clarify that resurrections are reserved for Jesus Christ. After an hour and a half, the students get tired...
...percent, will likely decrease if the College continues to accept students who may be bound elsewhere. Although it is misleading to count students in the yield who don’t have a choice in matriculation, if U.S. News continues to tabulate this way, Harvard should simply accept the slight drop in yield rather than change its policy...
Some Houses worry that they will be overwhelmed with diners should they lift restrictions. Even if the numbers of diners at certain Houses increased slightly, however, it would be easy enough to respond to an increase with necessary changes. Quincy House has done exactly that. As the only centrally-located river House with no restrictions, Quincy has become the default dining hall for group meetings and for friends from different houses to get together. Because Quincy welcomes visitors, rather than imposing restrictions on them, the dining hall staff has attempted to combat long lines and overcrowding caused by the influx...