Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James B. Conant was a quiet, forty-year-old professor of Chemistry who had earned an enviable reputation in his field for work with chlorophyll, had gained a slight notoriety among undergraduates for giving a tough course in Organic Chemistry, and was totally unknown to the general public and the academic world. On the following day he was elected president of Harvard University thereby automatically becoming the leading spokesman for American education...
Sports news played a very large part in the paper of the Gay '90's, Accounts of the daily football practice were invariably given the best spot in the paper, and slight jugglings in the jayvee crew boatings were big news. Early CRIMSON writers were much franker in their criticism of teams than today's timid journalists. Specific players were singled out for uncomplimentary comment: "Simmons will just have to try harder. . .Stokes still waits too long on the recovery. . .Charlton refuses to charge ground balls" are typical examples. There was a lot of talk about overemphasis of sports...
...CONGRESS New Tracks For years, California politicos have assumed that Governor Earl Warren was grooming State Comptroller Thomas Henry Kuchel (pronounced Kee-kul) to succeed him as governor. Kuchel, a slight, friendly man, is one of the governor's closest political and personal friends, received his present post six years ago through Warren's largess, and has not only gone down the line politically for his benefactor, but has done an outstanding job as bursar of California's billion-dollar budget. Last week, however, the governor switched his protege to a new track, appointed...
...great rallying places of the Christian world, but for the last 24 years its local parishioners, the Christian Arabs of Nazareth, have been badly divided. In 1928, one of the Franciscan monks at the Annunciation was charged with building a new wing to the adjoining monastery. In a slight dispute, he fired one of the stonecutters. Angered, the 29 other stonecutters quit. When the monks still refused to reconsider, 600 other Nazarenes joined in protest. They refused to set foot in their church again, until their stonecutter was reinstated...
...such a way that the local tabbies came by dozens and prowled between his legs. He wore a ring with a sharp spur in the bezel, for use in case the Jesuits should attempt to ab duct him. He trusted no man and insulted all, yet the least imagined slight could ruin a week for him. To conceal his sensitivity, he cultivated a poker face...