Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardling squad, which has defeated Providence, B.C., Brown and the University of Massachusetts freshman teams, is rated a slight favorite to win. But the Indians' Doug Brew, who broke the course record two weeks ago, heads a team with unusual depth...
...whole village of Alexandra pursues him until he seeks out a plausible hiding place--first for the money and then for himself. Since the film's humor and poignancy rests with the actions and grimaces of the performers, the trite English dialogue and amateurish delivery is but a slight deterrent to the whole effect...
There was the same big Army (26 divisions manned by 1,400,000 men). There was the same big Navy (including four battleships among its 408 combatant ships). There was a slight increase in Air Force strength-the 1955 goal for the Air Force, deeply cut in the 1954 budget, was raised from 110 to 120 wings...
...Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, flying back to Moscow after a visit to Washington, was surprised to find no bodyguard to greet him at the airport and himself free for the first time to move about without escort. This is the kind of change meant to be regarded as a "slight improvement in relations...
...loyalty hearing, Radulovich produced witnesses who swore that his father was not addicted to reading Communist propaganda. And, while not denying his sister's lapses of political good sense, he pointed out that his contact with her was slight, and certainly not of the frequent and close variety prohibited by the Air Force with people of suspect loyalty...