Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against every one of its five opponents, Harvard usually built up a slight lead or remained even for the first half but then seemed to lose its touch in the second half when the scoring really counted...
...frigate, with a small steamer, a few gunboats, a fort, a slight military force, and the English union jack, would constitute an establishment powerful enough, not only to protect the place, but to control all the neighboring evildoers...
...criticism, grimly announcing that "there is no such thing in the U.S. as serious radio criticism except in this and one or two other business publications." This year it tendered a tentative laurel to the New York Times radio department and its editor of the past six months, shy, slight John K. Hutchens, for "a promising type of literate analysis...
...thinking ("hardest thing I ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...
...modernist ear-splitter, a onetime Russian aristocrat, Igor Stravinsky. At first toot, the author of the raucous thumps and blats of The Rite of Spring (played in Walt Disney's Fantasia) hardly seemed a likely rearranger for the national anthem. But the Stravinskian Star-Spangled Banner, despite its slight Russian accent, is a genuinely spacious and stirring piece. It should be welcomed by conductors who, under the ukase of Boss James Caesar Petrillo of the musicians' union, now play it at every symphony and opera performance. Stravinsky and his publisher (Mercury Music Corp.) have waived performance fees...