Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were: CJ Low-calorie beer, called Trommers Red Letter and put out by Piel Bros., to be marketed in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Jersey and Delaware-despite the obvious distaste of other brewers who would just as soon not remind people of beer's fattening contents. Priced slightly higher than regular beers ($1.17 in New York City for a six-pack of 12-oz. bottles or cans), Red Letter contains fewer than 100 calories per 12 oz. (v. 150-170 in other beers). The reduction in calories results not so much from a slight drop in alcohol content...
...Britons brightened at Jane's return, but the august Guardian, fully aware that Jane had wed Georgie a scant 22 months ago, was aghast at the sudden appearance of a teen-aged daughter. "Can it be parthenogenesis?" asked the Guardian in its "London Letter" column. "There is a slight accent of scandal about the whole thing...
...with the crowd singing God Bless America. In between, while klieg lights stabbed the desert sky, 9,000 guests milled and drank and watched an assortment of 64 entertainers ranging from acrobats and show girls to Stand-Up Comics Shecky Greene and Myron Cohen. The guest of honor, slight, grey-haired and merry as a grig, shook hands, soft-shoed with a bowler hat and sang Harrigan, That...
...results this week, no one would know how much of a boost the Berlin crisis had actually given Willy Brandt. No one may really know until the electorate gets down to marking the ballots on Sept. 17. But in the wake of the Communists' blow, there was a slight-and only slight-question of Konrad Adenauer's continued dominance...
...whitewashed, thatch-roofed cabaret in St.-Maries-de-la-Mer, west of the French Riviera, the crowd sat in the smoky darkness one night last week as the guitarist strummed the gypsy rhythms that he had learned as a boy. The slight, intense performer did not like the feel of the crowd-"les marts," he contemptuously called them, "the dead ones." His playing was listless until midnight, when the dead ones left, and an enthusiastic group of flamenco appreciators-some gypsies among them-arrived from Aries. Then 29-year-old Ricard Baillardo (Manita de Plata, or Little Silver Hands...