Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue a warning last fall. Last week the association reported that its members were more optimistic in February than at any time since last November; 24% reported that their new-order situation was improving, v. only 15% in January. Added the agents' Chicago association: "There is a slight indication that we may just about have reached bottom, and a reversal will start taking place in the not too distant future...
...Jennie, "fresh and sparkling as a rosebud," her "lovely petals protected by a thorn." With a slight tightening of the lips (and Kissel's shotgun), she can down eight brace of prairie plover in seven shots (five doubles and two triples). Has a "neat, graceful competence" in scalping Indians. Fond of husbands, but is apt to have them shot out from under...
...each Sabbath brings three Orthodox rituals involving wine. Excess is avoided because "drinking thus occurs in the presence of the most powerful sanctions in Orthodox Jewish life." If so, does drunkenness increase among Jews as they leave the Orthodox faith? Snyder's statistics indicate that there is a slight trend in this direction, particularly when Jews are exposed to strong Gentile influence...
...mile from Cow Creek, Driver Derossett eased down a slight incline beside the Big Sandy. Two hundred feet ahead, a wrecker was maneuvering across Highway 23 to pull a truck out of a ditch...
Describing "the whole galaxy of climaxes." Author Hilliard ranged gushingly from the "one so slight that it is a sigh to one so profound and deep that it results in an agonizing cry ... a small death." On the other hand, the article added, "millions of women feel nothing at all." and the "timing of the climaxes can take five years to perfect." For the apprentice mate who cannot muster even a sigh. counseled Sexpert Hilliard, "the worthiest duplicity on earth" is to pretend to a man that "he can cause a flowering within her." By way of re-enlisting readers...