Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Veterans are scarce on the team, since last year not one of the six scheduled matches was played. Wet weekends and a slight personnel shortness conspired to prevent all activity but a few practices...
...small band of Yugoslavs splashed grimly through the slush of Masaryk Street one morning last week to Belgrade's old Circuit Court Building. A waiting crowd of about 100 students set up a derisive howl: "Traitors! Bandits!" The two men in the lead, one a slight, wiry figure, the other a burly, tousled man, pretended not to hear. But at the doorway the small man turned to the taunters. "Kush!" cried Milovan Djilas, using the word Yugoslavs generally do to quiet howling dogs. Then Djilas, the deposed Vice President of Yugoslavia, and his companion, Vladimir Dedijer, friend and biographer...
...People," says the slight, greying little Japanese, "used to call me the Dr. Goebbels of Manchukuo." For Premier Tojo and the warmakers of Japan he arranged good-will delegations to Hitler and Mussolini, became propaganda chief of Manchukuo, then of all Japan. At war's end he expected to be tried as a war criminal...
...women who use the Bureau's services are from all rank lists, though there is naturally a slight preponderance of those who are doing unsatisfactory work. "We've had people who have three A's and a B and want help to get four A's and others who have four A's and don't want to work as hard as they do," says Perry. "Every year we have several men who graduate with magnas...
Except for its heavyweights, the Lion team rates a slight favorite on the basis of its narrow losses to Army and Brown, which soundly beat the Crimson before exams, and its six-point win over Yale...