Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hope that other snob artists may follow suit, thus removing from public view these annoying enlargements of a slight case of bellyache which the artist too often mistakes for an important esthetic experience...
Once the race got underway, tempers flared. Motorcycle cops patrolled the course, broke up fist fights among rivals who crashed into each other. Nineteen drivers suffered slight injuries. Two youngsters craftily painted the same number on two cars, with the intention of letting one take over from the other at the halfway mark. Their strategy miscarried when the second car got to the finish line before the first even started. Several boys whose cars had smashed apart crossed the finish line on foot, running with car wheels and bodies tucked under their arms. To the chagrin of the boys...
...four-mile test of June 23 was "normal." Reports that the three oar, Ollie Iselin, was to be replaced by Ted Anderson because of injuries turned out to be rumor when trainer Dr. Harrison Kennard, in Cambridge for his 25th reunion, testified that Iselin had fully recovered from a slight strain within 24 hours...
...believe, however, that his diagnosis of the "insidious forces" is mistaken, and that they will require a much firmer opposition than he advocates. Women in clubs are no distraction to study as one doesn't study there anyway. Women in classes are a slight distraction because there is so little opportunity for conversation. Fortunately Lamont and the dorms are not yet coed...
...stating the purposes of the talks (i.e., to merge Western Europe's coal and steel industries under an international authority), the British refused; they argued that this would mean an advance commitment to the plan. In its best diplomatic manner, France's Foreign Ministry announced that a slight "verbal misunderstanding" had arisen...