Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desert in 1945 to usher in the Atomic Age. Pauling estimates that one 50-megaton bomb alone would cause 40,000 babies to be born with physical defects in the next few generations, and 400,000 more defective or still-born babies over the next 6,000 years-or slightly more than one a week. He also expects uncounted cases of bone cancer, leukemia and other physical defects to appear in humans now alive. At the other extreme is Dr. Edward Teller, professor of physics at the University of California and a developer of the H-bomb, who insists that...
...slight acquaintance with game theory will illustrate that given a choice between...
...unrecognized by them) that descendants of the great Mayan race. What a Zinacanteco? He speaks a language known as "Tzotzil." He has developed over centuries a way of life strongly resistant to any inroads of Mexican or Western civilization. Even Catholicism has failed to do more than lay a slight gloss of saints and churches over his old, basic Indian religion. Moreover, a Zinacanteco manages his own local government and possesses his own lands. He has his own community...
Dartmouth, Eastern Rugby Union champion last year, is rated by experts as probably the best team in America, if not in the world. Harvard, fresh from its 6-3 victory ever M.I.T. Wednesday, its second consecutive win, is a slight underdog...
...Congress Presidium, dutifully joined in by clapping his hands at his own condemnation. Nikita then went on to denounce Nikolai Bulganin, who was straightman in the touring company of Khrushchev and Bulganin until his 1958 demotion. Bulganin, in the audience as a delegate, seemed to wake from a slight doze at the mention of his name and made a few notes. The other anti-party villains-Molotov (relatively safe in Vienna), Kaganovich, Malenkov, Pervukhin, Saburov and Shepilov -seemed like candidates for dismissal from the party, prison or worse...