Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...televising of intercollegiate football games has had a very slight effect on attendance at games, according to a poll taken by the NCAA at last Saturday's Dartmouth game...
...strategem did not work--if in fact it was ever seriously considered. The House passed the McCarthy-Dorgan education bill, with slight changes. The revised version cut out "Communist or Communist sympathizer," substituting "any professor seeking the overthrow of the government." College presidents were made personally responsible--colleges would not lose their charters...
...southern parts of the U.S. there has not been so much change. Other meteorologists, says Dr. Kimble, have reported a slight cooling of the tropics. So there is no imminent danger that the jungle will muscle in on Alabama...
...kind of shocker characteristic of Graham Greene-the kind of remark that induces a slight creeping of the flesh (although on this occasion it may be doubted whether the effect was either intended or achieved). Graham Greene deals in shockers...
...fall back on such words as restless, troubled, intense, obsessed. But Greene is not the kind of man who makes a vivid first impression. Tall (6 ft. 3 in.), frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with its wrinkled skin that looks as if it had shaken loose from the flesh, and the startled, startlingly washed-out blue eyes, slightly bulging...