Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME correspondent who heard the President's reply caught a slight emphasis...
...midnight they woke up a scientist formerly connected with the Los Alamos project, who examined the metal, confirmed the fact that it was uranium, and told them that they need not worry. Uranium's natural radioactivity is too slight to be dangerous...
...present I made six donations totaling $800, or about one-eighteenth of the total of my father's gifts. Yet your subcommittee and its investigators have never once mentioned my Republican father's long and deep interest in the Institute. Instead, this subcommittee has stressed my own slight and brief association with the Institute, obviously as part of its effort to paint [the institute] as Red by concealing the fact that leading bankers and conservatives have been among its chief backers...
Manning's government is the nearest approach to a theocracy in the Western Hemisphere. The slight (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) premier, who practices his own brand of Baptist-fundamentalist evangelism, has been blending religion and politics throughout his public career. Says Manning: "Religion isn't to be kept on a shelf and only taken down on Sundays." A well-thumbed Bible is always open on his desk in Edmonton's Parliament Building. In every public speech, religion, not politics, is the dominant theme. "I abhor the word politician," Manning has repeatedly told Albertans...
...atomic weapons, but it will cost nothing like as much to produce . . ." Did the knowledge of the new weapons have anything to do with passage of the $5 billion? "Of course," said Subcommittee Chairman Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming. South Carolina's Burnet Maybank added a slight damper. Appropriations for "the weapons," he said, were "small compared to $5 billion." Most of the money in the $5 billion item was specifically ticketed for direct expansion of U.S. air power-to increase the Navy's air arm as well as to start building the Air Force...