Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like most famed sayings, Wellington's gives a slight toehold to apocryphists. But TIME will continue to credit Wellington with the saying unless 1) somebody can prove that he did not say it, or 2) that the saying is false to the spirit it symbolized...
...whom hemophilia had not killed: tall, goodlooking Don Juan (for whom he had renounced his claim to the throne) and deaf Don Jaime. Wild-eyed Infanta Beatriz was there, and Alfonso may have remembered that she had driven the car in which Son Gonzalo was riding the night a slight accident made him bleed to death (the King had paced his room that night, sobbing like a child). His plump, favorite daughter, Infanta Maria Christina, had not yet arrived from Turin. The others hoped she would get there in time...
Although the meet is by no means a closed affair, the Tigers have a slight edge, thanks to Crimson injuries. This is shown in comparison of scores. Princeton defeated Columbia 21 to 8 while Harvard downed Columbia 15 to 11. Both teams were whitewashed by the Quakers, but Princeton lost by a smaller margin...
...comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting. Traceable to these hyperthyroid thrillers are many a midnight scream in the nursery, many a juvenile nervous tantrum. Some parents ban the lurid comic books; the more thoughtful try to substitute "good" books. Meanwhile the comic books go marching on-with a slight drop due to the loss of the export market...
Jawaharlal Nehru is in jail again, serving a four-year term. He has had plenty of that: only twice since 1921 has he been out for more than a year at a time. Nominally, his offenses have been slight. Actually, his offense has been that he is one of the world's most uncompromising advocates of unlimited democracy, continuously troublesome in the imperialistic back yard of democracy's present arch-defender. He has been three times President of the Indian National Congress; next to Gandhi himself he is the most powerful leader in India. And as a leftist...