Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, a "slight" decline in support for teaching fellows is not acceptable, nor is any plan which requires that the teaching fellows wait and see how much aid they will receive next year or in following years. But Jones could have reduced the tension of the present situation a good deal by making clearer to the teaching fellows how the new aid system would affect them...
...Some slight differences, however, have been detected in the behavior of the sexes in the voting booth. Women seem to prefer the safe-and-sound candidate, the one least likely to embark on war or some other hazardous undertaking. They are a bit less racially prejudiced when they vote, a bit more internationally minded. Their response to charisma is apparently overrated. Younger women may jump and squeal, older women may gush over a candidate like John Lindsay; but once they go to vote, they are less susceptible to their emotions. It was not the glamorous ex-PT boat commander, John...
...have been invited to Peking as tourists. Invitations have also been extended to Senate Leaders Mike Mansfield and Hugh Scott-much to the annoyance of House Speaker Carl Albert and Minority Leader Gerald Ford, who wondered why they could not go too. Albert warned that if the institutional slight was not corrected, "appropriate action" would be taken. An apologetic White House assured the Congressmen that other invitations from Peking would be forthcoming...
Aided by two man-up situations. Harvard held a slight territorial edge in a slow, tight-checking first period, but predictably, the Crimson's first penalty caused a B.U. goal. The B.U. power play was in its usual awesome shape, running Harvard penalty killers Dave Cavanagh and ex-J.V. player Greg Driscoll all over the ice. Driscoll had moved up to replace Leif Rosenberger, whose third line status has been restored because of Bob Goodenow's injured ankle...
Standings in the Eastern League, which have usually been a reliable indicator of team strength for the Easterns, are particularly misleading this year. Princeton, which completed the dual-meet season undefeated, unseated Penn as League champion, but nevertheless the Quakers remain a slight favorite in the meet because of their superior depth despite sliding to fifth in the League...