Word: slightest
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...succeed and the competition are still intense. Despite changes in the composition of the student body, faculty and administration, the Puritan ethic persists Students face a bevy of rules and regulations, covering everything from off-campus travel to having guests of the opposite sex in rooms to even the slightest hint of dishonesty...
There exists only the slightest semblance of plot, and the actors do nothing but speak in front of a basically immobile camera, a tech nique Rohmer learned from working in television. However, in spite of this, Rohmer succeeds in drawing the audience in, little by little, just as Jeanne is drawn into Natacha's family problems. The director presents four charismatic and eloquent characters, and by the middle of the film the audience feels as if it were watching an episode from real life...
...Nicaragua. "Igor was excited because he was using a new device," Williams recalled last week from a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. "He was smoking a cigarette, and he was all happy." Andrew McFarlane, of Florida International University, had just taken a snapshot of the two men when, without the slightest warning, the ground heaved and the mountain erupted...
...coming off the roughest road trip of the year--to Cornell and Columbia--and it was looking for even the slightest hint of momentum before playing nine tough league games to close out the season...
Mixed-ethnics like me can't answer this optional item easily. After vacillating for a minute or two between "white" and "Asian," I gave into the "one-drop" mentality that dominates Americans' ethnic self-identification. It tells you that if even the slightest bit of the blood in your veins (even one drop) comes from somewhere outside northern Europe or the British Isles, that somewhere is your native land. With some discomfort, I made my choice. Asian...