Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, weather conditions perfect once again, the animals back in their places, the first test bomb of the maneuvers was finally fired. Barred from the site, newsmen at distant observation points thought they heard a slight rumbling. The expected blinding flash of light was not visible. The AEC would not discuss the explosion...
...Will," a short, slight figure in a crumpled brown suit, walked proudly across the stage of Washington's big Departmental Auditorium and shook the hand of Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Acheson had summoned 62-year-old Mar- vin Wilbur Will to present him with the Distinguished Service Medal, the department's highest award...
Some 100,000 descamisados massed before the palace to pay tribute to "our lady of hope." There was a thunderous roar as she was carried in an armchair, a slight figure in a checked burgundy suit, to Perón's side on the balcony. Just before he spoke, the President decorated her with a special medal for relinquishing the vice-presidential nomination. Then, for the first time that anyone could remember, he clasped his wife in a public embrace. The descamisados howled with pleasure...
Electrocardiograms of the 70-year-old Premier were normal; all the X rays, blood tests and urinalyses were negative. The only exceptions to the doctors' clean bill of health: a mild anemia, slight deafness and rather low blood pressure (100 systolic). His only treatment: vitamins...
Defensive halfback Art French has only a very slight chance of getting into the Dartmouth game at all because of a twisted ankle. Otherwise the squad is in good physical shape...