Word: slightness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while Italian journalists hissed from the galleries, a slight, regal figure appeared before the League of Nations in poignant protest against the invasion of his country by Mussolini. That year Emperor Haile Selassie, a proud ruler who lived to see his country free once again, became the first African leader to be TIME'S Man of the Year. Since then, Africa has been making history on its own, awakening the rest of the world to Africa's own awakening. TIME cover stories illustrate the way the story has developed. In 1952 there was Daniel Malan, the dour Boer...
Julius Nyerere, 36, whose Tanganyika African National Union won every seat in last fall's election to the Legislative Council. A slight, soft-spoken man with an M.A. (history and economics) from the University of Edinburgh and the filed teeth of his tribe ("I found them a rather useful and amusing gimmick in college"), Nyerere is a comparative moderate who is willing to wait all of six years for independence from Britain, says of his own future: "When I make a great kelele [Swahili for disturbance], I am cheered to the echo. But when we take over the government...
...closest races will be in the 50 and 100-yard freestyles, where Bruce Hunter, almost unchallenged thus far this season, will face the Lion's Charlie Brown. Both have been timed at 22.8. in the 50, but Hunter holds a slight edge...
...numerous activities guarantee an "out" for the unsophisticated freshman, unable to adjust to three compulsive days with a slight acquaintance, and to the upperclassman who finds himself paired off with a "turkey." The large number of blind dates leads to the barbarous custom of "shooting down"; i.e., ditching a date for someone else's or for a stray male or female. Nevertheless, most people don't object, at least not openly, and everyone seems to be having...
Just a year ago, the work of Jules Feiffer, 29, a slight, introspective New York cartoonist, was appearing only (and without pay) in the Village Voice, a furrowed-brow Greenwich Village weekly. Now Cartoonist Feiffer is up to his clean, button-down collar in offers from publishers. One book of his cartoons is a bestseller (5,000 copies a week). He appears in the London Observer, dashes off magazine ads and features (Playboy, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED), is discussing a screenplay for Director Stanley (Paths of Glory) Kubrick. His income tax for 1958 will be more than his entire income...