Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government was spending more than half a million dollars to prepare its case, including $23,000 to fly 19 witnesses from Japan. Throughout the prosecution's opening statement last week, Tokyo Rose -slight, neat and poker-faced-sat quietly, looking more like a nursemaid than a treasonous enemy of the U.S. With her in court was her husband, Felipe d'Aquino, a Portuguese whom she married in Tokyo in April...
Future Dreams. The legion of sorrow became bored. The youngsters churned aimlessly around the lobby. Whenever the Duce's name was mentioned, their eyes lit up. A young man with a slight lisp boasted: "We are getting bigger and stronger. Last month we beat up 400 leftist bastards and put 17 in the hospital...
...name of the county, with a slight disguise, is widely known. Rabbit fever, identified in Tulare County, was named tularemia...
Just getting stuck in a flue was bad enough. Mr. Gamfield, the chimneysweeper in Oliver Twist, who labored under "the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death," explained the attitude of masters to boys who got stuck: "Boys is wery obstinit, and wery lazy, gen'lmen, and there's nothink like a good hot blaze to make 'em come down vith a run . . . vereas smoke ain't o' no use at all in makin' a boy come down, for it only sinds him to sleep, and that...
Rockettes & Forest Fire. Slight, bustling Leonidoff, 52, a onetime ballet dancer, dreams up most of the shows (300 in the Music Hall's 16 years), with Producers Russell Markert and Florence Rogge taking turns at others. They must keep their dreams expansive enough for the stage's electrical and mechanical powers, plus the talents of guest headliners and a "stock company": the famed precision-kicking Rockettes, the Glee Club, Alexander Smallens' symphony orchestra, and the only resident ballet troupe...