Word: slight
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Although McLoon’s performance was a slight decline from last weekend’s record-setting race at Stowe, Vt. when she took first in a field of over fifty competitors, she nevertheless delivered solid finishes in both the 5K free technique and the longer 15K classic...
...faceoff goals—they get a faceoff goal, we get a faceoff goal—but ours is the one that wins it,” said BU coach Jack Parker, with a slight shake of his head...
...same process that causes roads to buckle in developed parts of the world. According to lead author Mark Kessler, it all starts with a field strewn randomly with rocks lying on top of soil. No field is perfectly flat, of course, and when the soil freezes in winter, any slight bump expands, pushing the rocks up and to the side. When things thaw out, though, the bump subsides straight down, so the rocks stay where they are. Next winter, the bump expands again--but since it's wider than it was the first time around, it expands even more, pushing...
...other travelers and steps onto a bus. When it stops seconds later and backs up to let him off for the next take, he stomps his foot in bewildered frustration. "It only took me four hours to get here from Thimpu," he says to Khyentse Norbu with a slight hint of reproach. "I can't figure out why it's taking me so many days to get back." The director pats him softly on the back. "I don't know what to say to him anymore," he confides. "He's like Chauncey Gardner, the Peter Sellers character in Being There...
...premise of Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches (Random House; 178 pages) is so wondrously slight, it's hardly there at all. Emmett, 44, is an editor of medical textbooks who lives in an old farmhouse in the country with his wife and two children. Every morning at 4 or 5, Emmett goes downstairs, lights a fire and sits by it, "the sole node of wakefulness at the heart of the sleeping world." He thinks about small, inconsequential things: the furious way his pet duck pecks at a frozen log "as if she were Teletyping a wire service story...