Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...able to walk. Every day he walks to his mother's office, where she supervises the nurses' training school. He is able to kick a soccer ball almost as well as any normal boy. His ambition is to become a doctor. My wife still walks with a slight limp. As she and Ronnie go about the grounds of the hospital, people stand and watch in admiration...
...management insisted that there had really been "a lack of room." But the government seemed more inclined to accept Premier Adams' interpretation of the incident. Last week the External Affairs department sent a note to Barbados expressing "the profound apologies of the government for any inconvenience or slight suffered by the Premier." Said Chief of Protocol H.F.B. Feaver: "We deplore any display of racial discrimination...
Cornell, winner of the Heptagonal cross-country championship, is a slight favorite to edge Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and Michigan State for the IC4A crown today in New York's Van Cortlandt Park course...
...singular peculiarities of the Providence institution he stresses, not its standing in relation to the large universities. Naturally, unity of spirit, small classes, and extracurricular activities are influential in a candidate's decision. About a fifth of the 3,000 applicants are accepted each year. A slight edge, 55 percent, of the incoming class is maintained by public school graduates...
...race for attorney-general by about 170,000 votes. Undoubtedly he had something less than an ardent desire to be attorney-general of the state and probably would have been rather distressed at the prospect of actually serving. His motives in taking the nomination seem to have had a slight touch of Machiavellianism. He apparently accepted it with the expectation that even if the whole ticket lost, he could decisively outrun the other Democratic candidates and so win recognition as the strongest vote-getter in the state party. Obviously Roosevelt made a disastrous miscalculation...