Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actually," he said, "I have found that I can get on very well with most people until they discover the error in my past. Then there is a slight pause in the conversation, a lifting of the eyebrows, an exchange of meaning glances, and somebody always says. "You never told us you were a Harvard...
Under two waves of heavy selling in one day last week, the New York stock market suffered its worst drop in 15 weeks. All of the last month's gains were wiped out as the Dow-Jones industrials dropped nearly 5 points to 226.65. This week, after a slight recovery, the market slipped still lower...
...accompanying explanation, Ringel described the painting as "strange and wonderful...radiant," and "pleasant to the slight of our eyes as the Garden of Eden was pleasant to the eyes of Adam...
Before heading to the Mayo Clinic for a slight nose operation, one-man rodeo Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd took time out to go on a Voice of America program, gave Soviet moppets the low-down on redskins and rustlers, along with some Western philosophy: "Never kick a man when he's down; never shoot a man in the back...
...slight Englishman with penetrating eyes and close-cropped, greying hair is hard at work this week lecturing and conducting a retreat at Hobart College in Geneva, N.Y. Few of Hobart's students have ever before seen anything quite like Dom Gregory Dix. For one thing, he is a monk of the Benedictine order in the Church of England.* For another, he is a scholar who began specializing in military diplomacy and became one of the world's leading experts on Christian liturgy...