Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic party machine, a skillfully waged Republican campaign and racial disorders in urban schools are all hurting Humphrey. In Maryland, voters are impressed by Nixon's substantial lead and seem anxious to join his bandwagon. In Tennessee, Humphrey's campaign just never ignited. Nixon currently enjoys a slight edge in Missouri, but if Humphrey picks up any momentum at all in the final weeks, he might be able to carry the normally Democratic state...
...Poland's Jerzy Pawlowski, 35, for all his slight stature and bald head, came to Mexico City as a latter-day D'Artagnan: in three previous Olympics he had won three silver medals in fencing and one bronze. This time he took a gold medal, winning 18 out of 20 bouts and the individual saber championship...
Although ingenious theories have been advanced to explain this paradoxical effect of methylphenidate, the mechanism of its action is unknown. The drug has few side effects, the two most notable being a slight loss of appetite and a tendency to insomnia if the last dose is taken too late at night...
...paradise" v. "capitalist imperialism," but the intelligentsia and oppressed against the worldwide Establishment, liberty and freedom v. suppression. The differences between the Soviet's suppression of literature and "normalization" of Czechoslovakia, Peking's Cultural Revolution, and the Wallace-Nixon-Daley concept of law and order are very slight. Their purposes are the same: the suppression of dissent and meaningful dialogue, and the expunging of opposition...
Hentoff, a jazz authority and wide-ranging social critic, is one of the most visible freelance writers in circulation. In this slight assignment he overcomes his modest talents for fiction with competence, concern and sympathy. But to what worthwhile end? Surely today's "young adults" do not need such pallid dramatizations of their problems when Simon and Garfunkel and the Beatles do it so much better...