Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee accused the Board of Education not only of failing to "stimulate even slight progress toward desegregation" but of letting segregation get worse in recent years. Whether Allen's advisers will accomplish anything more is mostly a matter of money and time. The state plan would cost an extra $250 million a year (current school budget: $840 million), and it could easily take a decade to fulfill...
...sundown they carried the prisoner on a stretcher to a soccer field at Saigon's Chi Hoa prison. A slight man with greying hair and steel-rimmed spectacles, ailing from diabetes and a heart attack, he was lifted to his feet by three guards, hung slackly against them for a few seconds. Then he walked slowly by himself across the sparse grass, murmuring responses to the pith-helmeted Roman Catholic priest who accompanied...
...upswing are such solid blue chips as General Motors, Jersey Standard, Singer, International Harvester, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Motorola-a sure sign that the buying is still dominated by the professional investors and the wealthy, who usually do not bite at untried glamour stocks or frighten easily at a slight downturn...
...slight, polished pieces in this latest assembly of Alberto Moravia's fiction illustrate one of publishing's awkward truths-that while there is a good deal to say for the short story, the short-story collection is a bestiary that should not be. Not that the stories are bad, but that they resemble each other like so many peachpit monkeys...
...about 3:15 p.m., the fire alarm roused the girls and sent them scampering onto the Quad. Inside the dormitory, Cambridge firemen hunted down the conflagation--which sent a slight stream of smoke from the living floor ceiling--and put it out rapidly...