Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Democratic Senator Henry Jackson's mail has shown a slight retreat from ouster demands, which were running at 90% earlier and 75% more recently. At the office of New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, where Nixon has received support in less than 10% of all mail in recent weeks, his rating last week had improved...
...that patrol cars have no significant effect on crime. In each of the three neighborhoods, the number of murders, rapes, assaults, robberies, burglaries, grand larcenies and auto thefts varied by less than 6% from the average total of 13,100. Indeed, the area with the fewest crimes - by a slight amount - was the neighborhood that had no regular patrol cars...
...biographical precis, with a few glimpses of some of Stone's colleagues, including his wife Esther, circulation manager of the newsletter. I.F. Stone's Weekly would have been better if it had been longer, with more footage devoted to Stone's apprenticeship and the time, admittedly slight, that he spends away from work. But throughout, Bruck catches the same animating qualities that the artist David Levine did in his famous caricature of Stone lifting up the Capitol Dome-what Stone himself calls "that combination of maniacal zest and idiot zeal...
Perry, despite being a letter winner last season, saw little action in the nets and thus has only a slight edge in experience over both Murray and Aiken. Cleary may choose to go with youth in the goal this year looking to develop seasoned netminding for the next two campaigns...
...crowded police-court docket, said Mark Twain, is the surest sign that trade is brisk and money plenty. The current season would seem to bear him out, with a slight twist. There is brisk betting and plentiful money riding on a schedule that is up to its antenna in crooks and crime, cops and private eyes, crusading attorneys and special investigators...