Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite its loss to the Crimson, Dartmouth is rated a slight favorite. The veteran Indians, hampered early in the season by a lack of ice, snapped out of their slump on January 22 against Yale, and have since gained successive wins against Boston University, Boston College, McGill, and Princeton...
Black Smoke. The three refugees were typical. Slight, nervous Arthur Woloski had the number 166773 tattooed on his arm. His parents perished in Nazi gas chambers. His own knowledge of Nazi concentration camps was thorough: it showed in the black gaps in his white teeth, the bayonet wounds and whip marks on his shoulders and ankles...
...government intelligence officer remarked that Markos' affliction was, no doubt, "a small round hole in the head." Although it seemed most probable that he had been executed by his fellow Communists, there was a slight possibility that he might have escaped into Yugoslavia. It made no difference. In one way or another, Markos had been removed from the scene...
...plan was Sweden's-a slight retreat from her long isolation and neutrality. The idea was that the three countries would arm as a unit, with the U.S. giving them the arms. They would thus be not quite in the same boat with the Atlantic-pact West, but would be hanging onto the gunwale, treading water...
With such slight Teutonic flavorings, some well-known U.S. radio techniques (disc jockeys, quiz shows, children's programs, folksy announcers) are being used by Berlin's station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). The blend has proved so palatable that in a recent poll 80% of Berlin's radio listeners voted for RIAS over the six competing Soviet-controlled stations...