Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technically retired seven years ago, Dr. Winslow has not slowed down a bit. Slight, stooped, and a nervous chain-smoker, he still edits the American Journal of Public Health, has just finished the second of five volumes on public health. Says his Yale successor, Dr. Ira Hiscock: "Winslow is still so young that young people go to him for new, young ideas...
...small street-corner crowds gathered along Stevenson's route rippled the question "Which one is he?" It was a question which haunted the Stevenson party. In the West, crowds had sometimes given their cheers to Campaign Manager Wilson Wyatt, mistaking him for Stevenson, to whom he bears a slight resemblance...
Political observers think that Eisenhower has a slight lead in Maryland, which has been voting more & more Republican ever since 1932. Last week Ike outdrew Stevenson on the streets and in the halls of Democratic Baltimore. The Republican nominee almost certainly will win Maryland's nine electoral votes if Pollack swings to his side, and he may win them anyway. In the U.S. Senate race, the situation is different. Democratic Nominee Mahoney is running ahead of Representative J. Glenn Beall...
...here." A few days later, Aly drove up from his Cannes villa, joined Rita at his Paris house. He took her on an extensive shopping tour, to dinner at Maxim's, on a round of nightclubs and back home. Next day, Aly announced that Rita had a slight cold and would remain indoors. But reporters persisted, and finally Rita and Aly received the press. The divorce plans, said Rita a bit haughtily, were definitely off-"for the present." Bubbling Aly called for champagne "for everyone on a day like today." "There is none cold," a servant whispered. Aly waved...
Child's Play. The little-girl dancers, their childish bodies sheathed in golden cloth, moved slowly about the stage, hips back, knees bent and slightly parted, darting their slant eyes, their arms and fingers flowing through a cascade of graceful and sophisticated gestures, all with a slight smile of incredible self-possession. The oldest was 13. The male dancers were much older. In one all-male number, 30 men sat in a circle on the floor, shaking their shoulders in unison, and began a syncopated whisper that worked up into something like a football cheer, while a clown leapt...