Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Horrible Example. While Martin was trying to smooth things out, Dick Nixon was trying to stir things up. He was confronted by a distressing situation in Ohio's Taftland, where the G.O.P.'s gusty Senate Candidate George Bender probably has a slight edge over Cleveland Democrat Tom Burke, but is running a poor second in public interest to the Cleveland Indians. So far Bender has failed to whistle up even a mild breeze of enthusiasm. In Republican state headquarters, where some 60 paid employees bustled about two years ago, a bare 20 were on duty last week. Only...
...Says Dichter: it is not really bad coffee or the early awakening that bothers the patient but a basic emotional need for being mothered. However, this must be done with the greatest care: even when an adult is behaving most like a child, he resents any apparent slight to his "mature individuality." He seems to feel: "Care for me. But also respect...
...worn and haggard. His heart was tired. He was ordered to rest, but he continued anxiously to write and phone Christian Democratic leaders in Rome. He was increasingly distressed by France's attitude toward the EDC he had helped create. One day last week he had a slight heart attack...
...many as you can to the enemy. Asians like Burma's Premier U Nu want to be friendly with the West, but refuse to join a military pact. Rather than abandon them, or berate them, or wheedle them, the U.S. should seek a separate relationship that involves neither slight to them nor undue soliciting of their favor...
...Victorian Chaise Longue, by Mar ghanita Laski. A slight but chilling tale about a girl who strayed from the 20th century into the 19th (TIME, June...