Word: slights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symbolic, moreover, was the King Turkey Day in Worthington, Minn., which featured a parade of 150 live, gobbling turkeys and the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, who managed an apprehensive smile when the mayor plumped a nervous turkey into his hands. As the days wore on, Kefauver began to show slight signs of weariness. Once he blooped that President Eisenhower "has been stacking the National Labor Relations Board with pro-labor people"; another time, that "the Republicans are winning Maine." At the Cleveland Steer Roast, 40,000 people turned out to hear him drone on aimlessly comparing the administrations of Eisenhower...
...ROTC preference questionnaire sent to incoming freshmen is credited by officers with increasing enrollment in all three units substantially for the first time since the Korean War. The Air Force and Army units showed highest gains, while the Navy detachment showed only a slight increase...
Under Dubois' assault, the Moroccan government made a slight concession: instead of being whisked off to France in the early morning as originally planned, the deportees were allowed to remain in Morocco till midafternoon to settle their affairs, then sped by air to Paris. Next day, with pointed timing, the Moroccan Foreign Office notified Ambassador Dubois that it planned to revoke a long-standing arrangement which allows French citizens to enter Morocco without a visa...
...candidate been so important. In peacetime 1948, the recipient was again Tom Dewey. In 1952, both Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were briefed regularly. In the case of Eisenhower, who had resigned as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, the previous June to campaign for the presidency, the material was of slight value. Explained Ike last week: "I was in the middle of the military organization that had access to all of the type of information that I could possibly get. And so the additional information that I received, because of my peculiar status, was very limited, indeed...
...citizen. If she has any more to say it is probably what she says in The Nun's Story: "I'm not leaving the Church-only you, my sisters, and our Holy Rule that I am not strong enough to conform to . . remember this and feel no slight or sorrow...