Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to the normally caustic Times writer Howard Tuckner, there isn't a thing Archie does wrong. His only fault--a slight sloppiness in the care of his room--turned out to be a quaint sort of virtue...
...about to re-enter the atmosphere, it will be positioned for retrofire by computers on the ground. The pilot will rearm the retrorockets, which will be fired automatically when the proper time comes. During the capsule's long fiery curve through the atmosphere its astronauts will have a slight degree of control. By firing attitude rockets and tilting the capsule, they will be able to give it aerodynamic lift and so control to some extent the point where it approaches the ground. When it reaches about 48,000 ft the pilot will release a steerable paraglider. This final control...
Actually, the first five minutes of the picture are slight preparation for this exquisitely shocking scene, and the bits sand pieces of the plot merge only gradually into an elaborate conspiracy to place the entire government of the United States in the hands of the Communists...
...problem was the reverse: he was almost intimidated by the reputation he had to live up to. Says Maurice Pechet, Lodge had to work harder to prove himself to the other students, "especially the non-club types." When he entered Lowell House, he had a speech impediment, a slight hesitancy or stammering. But as he studied and took part in House life, his confidence in himself grew, and the impediment practically disappeared. People who knew him in college are amassed at the case with which he speaks in public...
...concern with national politics and the outbreak of war in Europe was slight, like that of most of his friends. Most of them assumed that he was a Republican, but he seemed little interested when Roosevelt dueled with Willkie in the election of 1940. And, as isolationists, headed by the Crimson, argued heatedly with interventionists about aiding Britain after 1939, Peabody stayed away from their clubs, rallies, and pickets...