Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes, Ydigoras can count heavily on Guatemala City and several middle-sized towns. Cruz Salazar has a slight edge with the well-oiled M.D.N., which controls and can deliver the votes of whole plantations, towns and villages. Mendez Montenegro is strapped for campaign funds, but much of the country's working class is behind him. With three strong candidates splitting the electorate, chances were good that none of them could win more than 50% of the vote, as required by the constitution. In such case, the M.D.N.-dominated Congress must choose between the two front-runners-which could lead...
...like your work?" said Prometheus one day, apropos of nothing except a slight tickling of the bile duct...
Several corrections for the present imbalance could be adopted. Primarily, the natural sciences could stiffen their requirements and raise the present standards for summa candidates. The social sciences might consider a slight liberalization of their standards for a summa, although rigid requirements are preferable to lenient ones...
...recommended for highest honors, the report shows that, within their own field, the scientists had grades slightly superior to those of the social scientists. Social Science concentrators, on the other hand, had a slight edge in distribution course grades...
...Sputniks he sent whirling into outer space aroused the U.S. giant to its danger as nothing else could have. President Eisenhower, throwing off the effects of a slight stroke, risked health and leadership to journey to Paris and rally NATO to new heart. The U.S.'s European allies brushed aside Russia's threatening letters, joined with the U.S. to face in new unity the psychological pressures built up by the Soviets' scientific breakthrough...