Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before a student is graduated from the School, Dean Horton said he or she "must come into at least slight contact with all of the major disciplines and the fullest possible rapport with the humanities...
...Clement Richard Attlee is getting ready to retire as leader of the British Labor Party. "I have had a long innings," the pipe-smoking ex-Premier told a London columnist last week. "I shall be glad when I can hand over to a younger man." Attlee had a slight stroke recently, and he is troubled by a persistent eczema. Intimates say that he looks fit enough, but is growing testy and has occasional periods of forgetfulness. As its next leader, the divided Labor Party, which went down to crushing defeat in this year's general election, has just about...
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, the doctor who must prescribe for Britain's slight touch of inflation, was in Istanbul last week to reassure the men of international finance, gathered for the tenth annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. Recently, European bankers have shown an embarrassing lack of confidence in the value of the pound-partly brought on by Britain's faltering financial situation, partly because of rumors that Britain might devalue it. Butler was firm. "We do not contemplate any early move on any-and I repeat any-aspects of the exchange...
...relations between Moscow and Bonn, and to consider Germany's reunification only at the price of West Germany's withdrawal from the Western alliance. Adenauer had already agreed with the U.S., Britain and France to refrain at Moscow from any dickering on such terms. Adenauer had a slight hope that the Russians, to encourage diplomatic relations, might be persuaded to return some of the Germans still imprisoned in Russia since World War II. Beyond that, what took place at Moscow hinged on the wary testing game that was about to be played, and on the unpredictable behavior...
After her tempestuous, two-continent romance with Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguin seasons ago. perfervid Cinemactress Ava Gardner was again building castles in Spain with a toreador. In the bull ring of the ancient town of Alcala de Henares, slight, curly-haired Cesar Giron, 21, was so inspired by Ava's presence in the stands that he dispatched his bull in high style, won both ears and the tail, presented his bloody trophies to Ava, who clutched an ear to her lips for a long kiss as the crowd cheered. But in another fight last week at Aranjuez, near Madrid...