Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football league, trotted onto Cleveland's Municipal Stadium field last Sunday to play the Detroit Lions, best in the West, for the 1954 football championship of the U.S. The game was figured close: the Lions, champs for the past two years, were the favorites by a slight margin. But the Browns went wild and won in a stunning, runaway upset. Score...
...closing minutes to put over the winning touchdown. This "preview," as it turned out, was highly deceptive. On the day of the championship this week, when they came to grips on the same field, the sun was shining, the ground was almost dry, and there was only a slight wind. The fireworks began instantly. On the first play after the kickoff return, Fullback Bill Bowman of Detroit reeled off a long run up the middle, to the Cleveland 33. On the next play, Detroit lost the ball on a fumble; on the next Cleveland lost it on an interception. Detroit...
...Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living index inched up one-tenth of 1% last month to 114.6 (1947-49=100), thus ending a slight down trend which has extended over the past three months. Reason: 1955's new auto models, which hit the market with slightly higher prices and lower trade-in allowances from dealers than on last year's cars. Thus the boost affected only those who bought a new car. For the rest of the U.S., living costs declined slightly...
...bomb raises appreciably the general level of the earth's radioactivity. Even a slight increase is likely to have important genetic effects. Experimental reasons for fearing this outcome, said Martin, are well established...
...Friars upset Brown last Monday, 5 to 2, and lost to powerful Boston College by a slight 4-2 margin. The last Eagle goal was scored in the final minute of play, when Providence had taken out the goalie to press with a six-man attack...