Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington system, on the other hand, concentrates on obtaining a powerful pull by getting a long reach at the beginning of the stroke, and finishing with a slight enough layback so that a quick and smooth recovery is possible...
...What a Pity" Probe, but for all-round utility, he recommends "plonking." Writes Potter: "If you have nothing to say-or, rather, something extremely stupid and obvious-say it, but in a plonking tone of voice-that is, roundly, wisely, and dogmatically; or take up and repeat with slight variation, in this tone of voice, the last phrase of the speaker." Thus...
Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...
Last February, Washington sent slight, straight-talking Banker Joseph Dodge, of Detroit, to help MacArthur get the program started. Last week Troubleshooter Dodge was packing to go home, his mission accomplished. In a busy three months he had persuaded Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government to balance its budget (for the first time since 1931) and set up a realistic yen rate (360 to $1 U.S.). In return for the national belt-tightening that this signified, the Japanese would receive U.S. aid (around $4,000,000 in 1949) along self-helping ECA lines...
...sounded like the dizziest Hollywood logic, but it was a fact. Box-office grosses, despite a slight recent recovery, had not gone back to the wartime highs. Pictures had moved so fast through the nation's theaters that Hollywood's huge stockpile vas almost exhausted. The big sound stages were suddenly put furiously to work to supply the theaters' demands...