Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have become very excited about Challenge this term. The teachers seem to share a much more relaxed and eased attitude toward their work. Many of us have realized that the children, their fulfillment and happiness, are the primary ends to keep in slight when we're teaching, not whether or not a project is completed. Too often, I think, people unknowingly see other people as objects with which to achieve certain ends which are said to be in the best interests of everyone involved. Such an orientation, when applied to children in a teaching situation, can result in a stifling...
...keep the fedayeen from staging raids across its mountainous southeastern border. The 15,000-man Lebanese army proved incapable of the task. It settled for insisting that the guerrillas not carry arms in Lebanon-which often meant the army carried their weapons for them. Two weeks ago, even that slight restraint was brushed aside when an eight-man Lebanese patrol stopped a group of Al-Fatah commandos a mile from the Israeli border. One guerrilla opened fire, wounding all eight Lebanese...
...taught me much," he once said. "A Japanese may tell you what he knows in a single drawing, but never will he attempt to tell you all he knows. He is content to lay stress upon a simple element, insignificant enough perhaps, until he has handled it; then the slight means employed touch the soul of the subject so surely that while less would have failed of the intended effect, more would have been profane. The gospel of the elimination of the insignificant preached by the print came home to me in architecture...
...moment turned political activist. As he mentioned the necessity of world peace and the now famous military-industrial-labor union complex, young defensive alumni lashed back. "You seem to have left words like 'freedom' and 'liberty' out of your presentation," a 1949 graduate pointed out. And another slight 'fifties alum snapped that "As a management consultant for a six years, I've been at the intermediary level in government defense contractors negotiations, and I defy anyone to link the two in collusion...
Japan's Yoshaiki Unetani was a slight favorite in yesterday's 73rd annual Boston Marathon; but he ran away from the other competitors to win in the record time of 2:13.49, beating the runner-up by almost four minutes...