Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report on the developing community. In recent weeks, covering the negotiations on Britain's entry application, he admits that "it was impossible not to begin to root for the British." After he left Brussels last week, during the wake for Britain's hopes, he admitted to a slight feeling of apology at telling a watchful clerk at the British European Airways counter in London that because of more convenient flight times he would have to fly Air France. But then, after thinking through the whole story of De Gaulle's act and its consequences as he wrote...
According to the Administration, the troops currently have no "offensive capability" against the United States or Latin America. The Administration is probably right; surely it is in a position to know the truth. But any lack of confidence in these official reassurances, the slight suspicion that the bellicose Senators may be right once again, is the result of unreliable handling of the news during the first Cuban crisis...
Traditional Trick. From studying patients' sores and where they got them, Dr. Hanson is convinced that, with rare exceptions, the upper arm is not the proper place for adults' injections. The muscle bed there is not big enough, he says, and a slight slip of the needle is enough to drive it into the radial nerve, wh re it may cause paralysis...
...prophets saw these incidents as symptoms; the disease was the corrupt state of Israel. Their cure was angry eloquence. "To us," Heschel writes, "a single act of injustice-cheating in business, exploitation of the poor-is slight; to the prophets, a disaster. To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world...
...newly wigged man faces the problem of getting past that first full-headed day at home or office. Many new toupee owners plan their vacations around the wig's delivery date, return home to friends who usually know something is different but are often convinced it is a slight weight gain or that brilliant tan. One suburban New Yorker received his new hairpiece in the privacy of the fitting room, put it on as his wife walked in. She burst into laughter and kept right on laughing for about five minutes. Her husband blushed, got more and more embarrassed...