Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surplus in Kennedy's budget depends heavily on uncertain future events. As stressed later by the President's economic message, the slight surplus is based on predictions of continued economic progress and increasing tax revenues; the greater the income of individuals and corporations, the greater the Government tax take. The surplus is also predicated on expectations of increased postal rates and great good luck...
...Vait!" The voice was that of Owly Vowly, renowned scholar and analyst of contemporary affairs. "There must be no violence on this issue until vee have time to analyze it." Foxy Moxy slinked back submissively, for Owly Vowly spoke very distinctly, authoritatively, and with a slight German accent...
...West. Towering (6 ft. 8 in.) Ken Galbraith is a vastly engaging, vastly self-assured pragmatist; given to heavily ironic wisecracks, he likes to be taken for an ogre, and in diplomacy, he claims, he has had to make himself "a lot more agreeable" than is his wont. Slight (5 ft. 11 in., 165 Ibs.) Ed Reischauer is a low-key, hard-driving teetotaler whose Oriental serenity and upbringing have prompted the Japanese to treat him like an honorable cousin...
Dartmouth supporters obviously claim that their team is getting a late start and emerges stronger after each game. That, of course, does not explain why the Green lost to Cornell last Monday, but it does pose some sort of a threat to the Crimson which now has a slight lead in the doggie race for the unofficial title of Eastern college hockey supremacy...
...rather than a playwright. When he first dons the white burnoose of a princely Bedouin, he takes an almost womanish delight in his new finery. Swifter than thought, the mood changes, and the robes seem transformed into the priestly vestments of a man taking holy orders. Later, raising his slight, shattered body from the floor after sexual violation, Mills utters a howl which in its compressed agony echoes the primal curse of man. Robbed of all self-regard, his face whitens to despair as if it were daubed in the ashes of a cremated soul...