Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the Negroes had lied to her, and perhaps, sudden-like, she might see that it was the same old thing: White folks in this country have been demanding that Negroes lie to them for a long time. The lie and its anticipated consequence, a slight but noticeable and sometimes crucial lifting of the hob-nailed boot from a black neck, formed a principle of existence for a whole lot of people long before the Fathers signed their ambiguous document and still does. If you act white, you're going to be lied to. Or better...
Actually neither narcotics agents nor the University knows much about the drug traffic in the Square, beyond the fact that it is slight. Both realize that "there has to be" marijuana round and they can guess with little difficulty who has it. They cannot however, cite many names or statistics...
...bone. The smaller bone was left to rejoin itself. Vascular surgeons joined the major blood vessels, not by stitching, which even the traditionally patient Chinese admit is difficult, but by turning one end up into a cuff over a tiny plastic ring and pulling the other end over the slight bulge...
...Quaker Oats and U.S. Rubber business-a rare hat trick on Madison Avenue. Koenig still writes some drug and whisky ads himself and checks every word of copy that his agency produces but there are "no review committees and no big think sessions." At home in Westchester County, slight and balding Koenig reads "everything from Jean Genet to Edgar Rice Burroughs," and is an amateur astronomer...
Yesterday's quake vibrated, rather than shook, a number of homes and was followed by a slight, dull rumble. There were no reports of damage or injuries...