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Word: slightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking back on yesterday's concert, only one slight complaint can possibly arise, and that has to do with the spacing of the numbers. The listener is caught, during the intervals, in a veritable frenzy of despair that the previous number was the last, and listeners have been known to stay glued to their windows for as long as half an hour in hopes of one last piece. This element of suspense is all that interferes with an otherwise totally exhilarating musical experience...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: The Lowell House Bells | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Love & Leave. There, ironically, romance entered Frank's life 13 months ago. Mother Duncan's nurse was slight, auburn-haired Olga Kupczyk, 30, recently of Vancouver, Canada. After Mother Duncan was sent home, Frank and Olga dated. In May Olga was pregnant, and told friends she was in love; in June she and Frank were married. But scarcely had a superior court judge tied the knot than Olga Kupczyk Duncan's mother-in-law trouble began. The newlyweds checked into a Santa Barbara motel for their wedding night. At 1 :30 a.m. Frank had to go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Mamma's Boy | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...conservative government, the King had been forced to shop intensively for a Cabinet that would somehow maintain his nation's delicate balance between extremes. Twice the King rejected Cabinets that he considered too far to the left, but last week he agreed to a government headed by slight, shy Abdallah Ibrahim, who is as left as they come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Delicate Balance | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

Introduced in the San Diego trial of Amateur Photographer Harvey Glatman last week were 22 pictures that had technical polish, slight originality of composition, and almost no precedent in the grim annals of criminal evidence. They were studies of three women bound with sash cord at ankles, knees and arms. As each one faced the Schneider Xenar f: 3.5 lens of Glatman's Rolleicord, she was minutes away from murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Proper Punishment | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...rose, the Atlas reported by radio on how it was doing. Digesting this information almost instantly, the ground computer radioed back to the Atlas the proper corrections for making its actual course conform to the programed one. These course corrections were made by controllable vernier rockets and slight changes of the direction in the thrust of the main engine. When the Atlas had climbed above nearly all of the atmosphere, the computer told it to turn its nose parallel to the earth's surface. Other U.S. satellites were kicked into orbit by firing a final rocket from the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atlas in Orbit | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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