Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...khaki shirt-sleeves and suspenders, the general prowled the red carpet of his sitting room, conferred with one or two aides, talked by direct phone to Washington, and treated a slight cold with applications of Vicks. Then he faced his stupendous task...
...Slight, sallow Valdo Magnani, 38, college-trained in economics and philosophy, had joined the party in 1936, fought in Fascist Italy's army (as an artillery captain) until Mussolini's downfall, then switched to the partisan anti-Fascist forces. In 1946 he emerged as Reggio Emilia's ace Communist organizer. Militant, tireless, persuasive, he gained 10,000 new party members for his province in the past two years, a time of dwindling ranks for Italian Communism in general. In 1948 he was handily elected to the national Chamber of Deputies...
Percentage & Average. Any roulette wheel can develop a slight imbalance, or an imperceptible rough spot which makes the friction uneven as it turns. This will favor certain numbers, and a player who discovers it may profit briefly. But a properly run casino checks the wheels constantly and changes them from table to table just to guard against such innocent larceny. The astonishing thing in Señor Delgado's case was that despite all normal precautions he kept on winning, in seeming defiance of the laws of percentage and average...
Comparative scores, for what they are worth, give the Crimson a slight edge. Dartmouth beat Northeastern, 3 to 2, and lost to B.C., 5 to 4. But where the Crimson buried Williams, 21 to 4, Dartmouth could surpass the Ephmen by only...
...other divisions, Dave Smith placed second at 155 and Pete Hathaway was a runner-up at 175. Smith sustained a slight knee injury in the semi-finals and ceded first place to the winner of the other semi-final round...