Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea as undignified for the "World's Greatest Newspaper." The circulation men gently persisted, suggested that the dolls were really quite handsome, and urged the Colonel to descend from his tower office and take a look at samples. Grudgingly, the Colonel agreed; however, he made a slight mistake...
...Slight, 42-year-old Jerome Morris felt irascibility building up inside him during his whole three months as the superintendent, meter reader and one-man complaint department of the Cleves (pop. 1,981), Ohio water works. He had to work ten, twelve, sometimes 24 hours a day at his $69-a-week job-partly because his predecessor had run off with $4,300 in water funds. Morris' work increased when drought taxed the water system's wells. On top of all this, the town paid him on the first and third Monday of the month, and he kept...
According to the U.S. embassy's anxious counters, there is still a slight numerical majority for EDC in the French National Assembly. The difficulty is that a majority that could be put together to pass EDC is not a majority that could govern the country. There are two majorities in the chamber: one for internal policy, one for foreign policy. The Laniel government is a precarious internal majority, essentially a right-of-center group. The Socialists will not join it. On a vote for EDC, the Socialists would support Laniel, but the Gaullists would desert him. Without the Gaullists...
...Pacific possessions were nine drawings of special interest: they were done by six of the eight grandchildren of Paul Gauguin and Tehura. The most promising talent among Emile Tai's children was that of eleven-year-old Adolphe, whose dark browns and blues could, by only a slight stretch of imagination, be made to recall his grandfather's mastery of color. But the real tear-squeezer of the show was twelve-year-old Célina Tai's crudely drawn portrait entitled (after a couple of false starts) "Mon grand-père Paul Gau-Guin...
...slight downtrend in business was reported last week. Industrial output in November, said the Federal Reserve Board, was down a notch to 228% of the 1935-39 average.(v. 231% the month before), largely because of a dip in auto output as assembly lines switched to new models. While manufacturers' sales were up slightly in October (to $26.6 billion), their new orders were down $2 billion from a year ago, as customers realized that it was no longer necessary to place orders far in advance. Consumer credit also slowed its rate of rise, from 27 million in October...