Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold martini. He saves part of every afternoon for his only hobby, swimming. In New York, he may go to the theater or a movie in the evenings. In Key West, he barhops or sits home listening to records with his long time secretary, Frank Merlo, a slight man with steel-grey hair. The rest of the house hold consists of two playful bulldogs, Mr. Moon and Baby Doll, and a parrot...
Died. Roscoe Ates, 67, slight, Mississippi-born Hollywood comedian who cured himself of stammering as a youth, made a lifelong hobby of helping other stammerers, but won his film fame and a lush living as a stuttering stooge; of lung cancer; in Encino, Calif...
...relish Walter explained that the extended the committee's mandate by unanimous consent last year. Acknowledging that HUAC's $327 thous- and budget was large, Walter said, "I just wanted to see if it would start something." Some of the slight opposition to the request came from a crowd of "penny-pinchers," he maintained...
According to current engineering theory, quiet is created by adding noise. Such background noises as the soft buzz of a fluorescent light or the slight hiss of an air cooler do not inhibit concentration (whereas the sound of voices or footsteps does). If background noise in an office averages 20 decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized...
...does not coincide with scientifically observed fact. Besides being misleading, it is irresponsible and, if taken seriously by uninformed individuals, it could do a great deal of harm. Actually the ingestion of this drug can precipitate peychetic reactions in some apparently normal persons. It has been known to increase slight depressions into suicidal ones and to produce schisophrenie-like reactions...