Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Freshmen cherish every chance they get to exercise their democratic rights. To describe the Smoker Committee election (or for that matter any undergraduate election) as a "democratic dabble" is cheap and a slight on our democratic heritage. It is also ridiculous. The members of the Committee are--perhaps contrary to CRIMSON knowledge--hard-working. Two members are at present in New York trying to line up entertainment. The CRIMSON can hardly say that these students are democratic dabblers...
...when Bill really let her out, he felt a slight yawing (turning from side to side). "Then I was in for it. Suddenly the yawing began to get violent. If I had thought it would get as bad as it did, I would have cut the power. But things happened too fast, and I was too late...
...weeks we could see improvement. We stopped the dosage for a while, then tried smaller doses and heavier doses. We were groping in the dark. But she has steadily improved. Shirley could barely move her arms before, now she runs around raising hell. She has only one slight muscle weakness in her left leg, and that's improving...
...guests, the duke is an outrageous host. The wine they admire, he knows will not "travel." Wheedled out of him and carted home, it tastes like vinegar. The villa's glittering bathrooms are tiled with condescending instructions: "Press handle down, hold for one minute and release with a slight jerk." The ten-year-old footman has been taught to speed departing guests with the final salute: "You-goddamned-son-of-a-bitch...
...Yale, a slight favorite, managed to turn the meet into a rout by stringing together a series of above-average performances. Mike Stanley, who proved himself a potentially great runner today, and Tod Lewis led the Elis with two wins apiece. Stanley, in addition to winning the 1000 in near record time, ran away from the Crimson's Dave Cairns to take the mile...