Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President of the U.S. develops a slight cold, a few sensation-hungry newsmen usually mix the germs with rumors and conclude that it is something far worse. Dwight Eisenhower has had his share of the usual plague of rumors. Before he got the Republican nomination last year, the whisper (planted by his political enemies) went out that he had heart trouble. A slight touch of food poisoning last spring was quickly diagnosed by the dopesters as a stomach ulcer. When he bruised his elbow last August, the story soon got around that Ike was showing signs of falling apart...
History, with 11.8 per cent of the student body, was the second largest concentration field. Economics and English followed with slight increases over last year...
Cornell and Yale are favored contenders for first place in the ten-sided contest, with Navy an unknown and possibly threatening quantity. Cornell holds a slight edge, because of a close win over the Elis earlier this fall...
...speakers agreed that the chances for a successfully negotiated peace in Korea are slight, but Menon and Reischauer agreed that the conference should be broadened...
...Slight of Hand. In Buffalo, up for sentencing after pleading guilty, Forger Leander Jones confided to the judge that he could neither read nor write...