Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slight, hawk-nosed and caustic immigrant from Texas ranch country, Walker got to the big city for the first time in 1919. Short on experience, but well-stocked with self-confidence, he took just half an hour to talk himself into a job on the New York Herald (now the Herald Tribune). By 1928, he was city editor. And for seven loud years, he steered the newsroom through a stirring and gaudy time. Speakeasies flourished. Lindbergh had just hopped the Atlantic; Babe Ruth had just hit 60 home runs. J. Pierpont Morgan posed for photographers with a lady midget...
...wide appeal to young voters, was reduced to the status of a regional grouping whose only remaining influence is in France's far east and west. The Radicals and conservative Independents turned out to be more clubs than parties. Though the Communists captured 21.8% of the vote, a slight increase over 1958, they fell far short of their leaders' expectations...
...developed. It is intricate and colorful, fanciful, decorative and fairly experimental. He frequently interweaves subject with enveloping background, and also interweaves various techniques: for example he will, sketch an imprecise background and subject base of splashy color and etch or pen his subject into it. Although there is a slight tendency for technique to overshadow insight, Mr. DeShong's production is certainly most pleasant...
...from the classical repertoire." Now please don't dismiss me as a fellow who can't bear anything less weighty than the Missa Solemnis. In fact, I enjoyed the football songs as much as anything else. The trouble is that almost a whole program of arranged folk songs and slight classics serves no one's interest well...
When Schirra learned that Cooper's chances for the big flight had been endangered because of his defense of Slayton, he made it clear that the slight (5 ft. 9 in., 150 Ibs.) former fighter pilot was his choice for the mission. What was more, Schirra, an outspoken man himself, threatened to take Cooper's case to the press if Cooper were ruled...