Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Government now fluttered over the Katangese Defense Ministry. Sixty civil servants and 120 Congolese army officers arrived from Leopoldville to take over Katanga's military remnants and administer postal service, telecommunications, customs and immigration. As resident minister, Leopoldville's top man in Katanga would be slight, sober Joseph Ileo, 40, a moderate who served as interim Premier of the Congo after erratic Patrice Lumumba was deposed...
...M.A.T. program began, in 1937, with 54 students enrolled in the first class. After a slight rise in enrollment the following year, the figures began to decline, until in 1941 only 37 students were participating. "Continued suspicion and ill-will" excited between the Faculties of Education and Arts and Sciences...
...abrupt 35° for take-off speeds up to 60 m.p.h.. and the ambulance at the end of the landing run seems so far away that it might be a Tootsie Toy. Once a jumper starts, there is no turning back: a wobbly takeoff, a sudden updraft. a slight miscalculation can mean a bone-shattering spill -and many a star of this perilous sport admits to frequent tussles with panic...
...Caucasian woman who rose in indignation and plunked herself down next to an unwashed, unshaven, but indubitably Occidental bum. Yet there was little bitterness among the Japanese-Americans. "A word that I heard over and over again whenever there would be an incident or a slight was shikataganai, which means 'it can't be helped.' " The Silent Fan. In 1926, when Yamasaki was a sophomore at Garfield High, his mother's brother, Koken Ito, came to stay at the Yamasaki home. Ito had earned an architectural degree at the University of California at Berkeley, and when...
Action in Cambridge begins tonight at 8 p.m. when Floyd Wilson's basketball five engages Columbia in the I.A.B. The game will be the second Ivy League match for both squads, and the Crimson rates a slight edge on the basis of its 45-40 victory over Dartmouth last week. Columbia failed in its first Ivy trial, falling before Cornell by an 80-70 score...