Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steam? Shades of yesteryear! Gliding silently down the streets of early 20th century America, the Stanley Steamer left a wake of admiring glances and a slight whiff of kerosene. Buffs still speak with awe of the day in 1907 when a streamlined Steamer literally left the ground during a Florida test, hitting a speed of nearly 200 m.p.h. Trouble was, the old steamers took half an hour to get the pressure up and used water at so prodigious a rate that they had to stop for refills every few miles. They also had bulky boilers that blew up from time...
...filming was about to begin, Nora spoke. She talked with an angelic softness, a softness that matched her beauty. But not exactly. There was a slight shakiness underlying the musical quality of her speech. As if, throughout her life, she had shuddered to the slammings of a thousand different doors and now had permanently assimilated a barely perceptible tremor into her very expression...
...Council graciously ignored whatever slight was involved and invited you all to use the "renovated course...at the revised greens fees...
...morale running all through Unites States society, but offered only rhetorical affirmations as a cure--"we can build a society to man's measure--if we have the will." Gardner acknowledged that "there are things gravely wrong with our society as a problem-solving mechanism," but, except for a slight shift from federal to local government, seemed always to be urging only more and better of the same. The United States "urgently needs leaders to symbolize its values, to clarify choices, to help sift priorities, and most of all perhaps to keep hope alive," Gardner said. That...
According to defense experts, Jack Ruby was suffering from a "psychomotor variant" seizure when he killed Lee Harvey Oswald. But prosecution witnesses answered that Ruby's brain waves were "normal," with only "very slight" aberrations, not enough to suggest seizures. "Boston Strangler" Albert DeSalvo was an extreme schizophrenic under an irresistible impulse at the moment of his alleged crimes, defense witnesses said; the equally impressive prosecution allies testified that DeSalvo was suffering a "defect of character but not a psychosis...