Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...telephoned Jarvis, who hotfooted it to the restaurant. Meanwhile, Gart phoned Horace. "I told him," says Gart, "that we knew where his father was, and I gave him Pieroni's phone number and asked him to call and suggest that he give up." Horace obliged, and after a slight sidewalk argument, Bernard Goldfine agreed to be interviewed at his home in Chestnut Hill that evening...
...nation 99% Catholic, were dogged by Italy's old anticlericalism, and by lack of a forceful, unifying leader such as Germany's Christian Democrats have in Konrad Adenauer. Two years after Hungary, the Communists and fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists continued to poll 36.7% of the vote, a slight increase over last time. Results in the Chamber of Deputies...
...directed its central appeal to the College's 45,000 living alumni. At the same time it is urging those who have already given to increase their pledges. The result has been a great increase in the past two months of the number of alumni participating, accompanied by a slight decrease in average daily income. According to the Program's April Progress Report, it had received about $37.3 million, representing 9,003 gifts, an average of approximately $4,100 per gift. One month later, the total number of gifts to the Program had decreased to 13,455, with the average...
...hardened into an organized revolution. By week's end the insurgents possessed a kind of legislature - the 70-man All-Algeria Committee of Public Safety. They also had an executive, "united unto death"-a three-man supreme junta composed of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, Paratroop General Jacques Massu, and slight, intense Mohammed Sid Cara, a Moslem physician who served as Secretary for Algerian Affairs in the last government...
...threaten and bully women, one by one. Like Dostoevsky's Shigalov, the inventor of "Shigalovism," he is a nihilist in action. His other activities include getting thrown out of the ladies' room of the U.S. embassy in a wild chase that bears a slight resemblance to poor Bloom's expulsion, "like a shot off a shovel" from Barney Kiernan...