Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the economy was already experiencing a slight boom, all this helped...
Death at the Heart. Professional critics such as Lewis Mumford have long warned that the U.S. city in general had something more than a slight case of congestion and aching joints. But most people thought of the problem only in terms of slum clearance and better housing for the poor?a worthy but not exhilarating objective. Only gradually did it become clear that the sickness of the cities was a kind of heart disease; they have been dying at the center, where the great stores and great buildings and great enterprises are supposed to be. The suburban sprawl, in leeching...
...Scott had some unlaujhing moments as he tried to hold on to his seat. A moderate Republican, he was slow to embrace Goldwater and never appeared on the same platform with him, but the Goldwater candidacy hounded him. The lead seesawed for hours, until Scott finally eked out a slight lead in a race that still might be decided by the absentee ballots...
...Times straw poll is 52 1/2-47 1/2), his victory, if he wins, should not be viewed from the simplistic perspective of the coattails cliche. While Johnson has held a steady lead over Goldwater, Kerner, who began campaigning only three weeks ago, has seemingly overcome an early deficit and a slight scandal within his own campaign team, to the surprise of most observers. One could fault Percy's tactics--some say he "peaked" too soon--but the other reasons for his decline typify the problems that a liberal Republican faces in Illinois (and perhaps everywhere in in the country), regardless...
...other student poems are generally clearer, but so slight as to be almost non-existent. The sentence, "The bright sun of dance makes no/moon of him, he receives the light/an asteroid past Pluto," which appears in Gavin Borden's "Marriage," must rank as the least happy of the issue...