Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Annex officials are pleased with joint instruction, but they bristle when outsiders call it co-education. Jordan admits the difference between the Harvard-Radcliffe arrangement and a standard co-educational university may by slight, but he thinks that co-ordinate instruction is responsible for a great many applicants who wouldn't have applied had the two schools been completely merged...
...year ago last August, a slight, 18-year-old California ranch hand named Billy Rupp committed an appallingly brutal murder. He cornered a 15-year-old baby sitter named Ruby Ann Payne in the television room of his boss's Orange County home, slugged her with a hammer and then shot her twice with a .22 rifle. He was found cutting the dying girl's clothes off with a pair of scissors. He fled, was captured, tried, found sane, and sentenced to die this month in the gas chamber at San Quentin Penitentiary...
...motives, Chambers found that the Treasury man "enjoyed the feeling that he was in direct touch with 'big, important people.' " In his book, Witness, Chambers recalled White in this passage: "There is Harry Dexter White. I see him sauntering down Connecticut Avenue at night, a slight, furtive figure. I am loitering near the Ordway Theater, where he has insisted (probably out of laziness) that I meet him for the third time in a row. Yet he is nervous at the contact, and idles along, constantly peeping behind him, too conspicuously watchful...
Pennsylvania's Walt Hynoski has a slight edge on Dick Clasby on punting, with a average of 40.4 yards per try. Clasby's average...
...Theater and the ballet at the Bolshoi, gave freely to beggars, noted the remnants of deep religious faith. In the end, he came to the conclusion that the Russians are a good, warmhearted, admirable people who "deserve much better than they receive." When he left, realizing his chances were slight of ever seeing Russia again, "a sort of sadness and depression . . . settled over me. Yet I know that, as surely as light follows darkness, the problems created in a decent people by the forced maintenance of power will somehow in the end destroy that power...