Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhat shamefaced, Mississippi Sheriff George Smith Marshall admitted that his boys had made a slight mistake: four Negroes who had been held in Sunflower County jail were just not guilty of the murder to which three of them had confessed. They confessed, the sheriff reckoned, after "a small amount of heat." What kind of heat? "I imagine they probably used a leather strap," the sheriff said...
General Motors is the most startling example. Along with other automakers, it complained against auto prices being controlled on the basis of 1950 costs and production rate, arguing that even a slight cutback in auto output (plus the hike in taxes) would bring a much sharper cut in earnings. G.M. was right. Though total sales were actually up slightly over 1950 (to $3.9 billion), G.M.'s net fell 42% to $280 million, its margin of profit from 11% to 7%. The drop, explained Chairman Alfred Sloan, showed the effect of lower passenger car sales, higher taxes...
...tall young man, just a few weeks under 21, entered the chamber alone, walking stiffly and slowly. His large eyes were solemn behind horn-rimmed glasses. His mouth was set hard. His slim, square shoulders seemed a bit too slight for the heavy bullion of the lieutenant general's epaulets they bore. At the first step of the red-carpeted dais before the throne, he stopped, turned, and bowed right & left. A hush hung over the chamber ; the young man's black shoes glistened in the subdued light. He raised his right hand with two long, slim fingers...
...young prince's slight frame was fitted out in olive drab and hung with the ritual cordon and sword. In one swoop, he was promoted from civilian to lieutenant general (Belgium's highest military rank) with nothing to bolster such splendor but an uncertain salute learned in Boy Scout days, still shaky despite much practice before a mirror...
...tour, flying a few hundred yards behind the grasshopper plane of Lieut. General James Van Fleet, the light plane carrying Under Secretary of the Army Archibald S. Alexander crash-landed on a mountainside near the eastern front. He telephoned the U.S. to assure his wife that his injuries were slight (two black eyes, a bump on the head, one broken foot bone), then flew home to a big welcome in Washington...