Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slight Risk...
There is a slight risk, he said, that Germany will look to the east instead of the west, but this is unlikely because Russia has built up a "legacy of hatred" through its treatment of German prisoners and its oppressive conduct of east German affairs. The standards of west German occupation are respected, General Clay added...
Reactions of European officials to Clarence Streit's arguments range from a slight interest in the idea to suspicion and outright hostility. British statesmen listened to the scheme with the look of deliberate patience reserved for small children and the harmlessly insane. Down at the heel though she was, Britain was still a world power. Was someone suggesting that she become a 49th state...
...slightest crack or deformation, workmen dug the foundation by hand, and poured all the concrete at one time. In the above-ground rooms, students and professors watch several machines which have needles drawing red lines on continuous rolls of graphed paper. These machines report each variation, no matter how slight, in the seismograph below ground. Visitors are only allowed to peer through a small glass window into the red-lit room two flights down. There they can see, beneath sinister-looking cheesecloth covered frames, the delicate equipment that records every movement within the earth, from an earthquake in Peru...
Luckless Bob Bramhall, Crimson substitute forward, was the villain and also almost the hero of the frenzied denouement. Trailing by a slight margin through most of the game, Harvard spurted ahead to a 55 to 53 load with three minutes to go. During the subsequent freeze attempt, Bramhall lost the ball in a wild shot at the Yale basket, and then fouled Anderson's successful lay-up to give the Elis their one-point advantage...