Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dartmouth holds a slight edge over the Crimson in its season's record. The Indians have won over Williams, 50-45; Harvard has beaten Springfield and lost to Army and Navy. But the service teams, especially Navy, are unusually strong this year, and losses to them do not necessarily mean Harvard is weak...
...spent Christmas with U.S. troops in the Arctic, and now New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, 74, was headed the other way, saying, "I don't want to slight the South Pole." He will spend Yuletide with the men assigned to U.S. Antarctic bases. It might be chilly, but the trip offers an unaccustomed bonus. Spellman will celebrate three Christmas Masses because of the international date line; a midnight Mass at McMurdo, then an 800-mile flight for a Christmas Day Mass at Byrd, and finally across the date line for another midnight Mass at the Amundsen-Scott...
...responses" (finger signals to indicate answers and reactions) developed by Obstetrician David B. Cheek, a fellow San Franciscan. Dr. Cheek finds that a mere nod or shake of the head during hypnosis is a relatively conscious effort that can cloud what the subject is recalling; finger signals, sometimes so slight that the psychiatrist can perceive them only as the tensing of a tendon on the back of the hand, work at a deep, subconscious level, and do not interfere with communication...
...Slight Snobbery...
...trading after it had been judged too risky by another broker. Allied President Anthony DeAngelis, out to make a killing in cottonseed and soybean oil futures, almost cornered the futures market; but he built on such a fragile debt structure-with the low-margin help of Haupt that a slight drop in price was enough to start the avalanche...