Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...articles from the Air Force News, including an unusually emotional tribute to the late Air Force Commander Liu Ya-lou, are said to be prominently displayed under the glass plate on Marshal Lin's desk. Both the fatherly pride and the daughterly sentimentality are surprising-if ever so slight-touches of humanity in a country that has lately taken to warning its youth against "the evil wind of falling in love...
Like the city's official accounting, Daley's 25-minute, press-conference defense bore only slight resemblance to the events. Sometimes the mayor just got the facts wrong. He told reporters, for example, that they "forgot entirely that the confrontation was not created by police. The confrontation was created by people who charged police." There was no such charge by demonstrators during the most notorious confrontation in front of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. At other times, the mayor magnified incidents to bolster his case. What would they do, he asked reporters, if someone tried to blind...
...depart because of similar pressures. Even more disturbing was the indication that two leftist groups (one pro-Peking, the other influenced by Moscow) had played a role in organizing the unrest. Communism has had little or no appeal for the mass of Afghans, but the signs of even slight influence caused the government to tighten up a bill to allow the creation of political parties so as to exclude the Communists...
...district attorney's office. Reading like a scene from last year's off-Broadway prison expose, Fortune and Men's Eyes, it is a depressing catalogue of homosexual assaults in the city's prisons and the sheriff's vans. Virtually no young man of slight build who enters prison is safe from attack, the investigators found. Most are overwhelmed and raped by gangs of tougher convicts within a day or two of their arrival. Their bodies defiled, their manhood degraded and their will broken, the victims are sent back to society "ashamed, confused and filled...
Both Kennedy and Johnson highly valued O'Brien's skills as a political diplomatist and used him as their liaison officer with the often fractious Congress. Some have argued, with only slight exaggeration, that O'Brien is responsible for passage of the bulk of New Frontier and Great Society legislation. Even after Johnson rewarded him with the postmaster-generalship in 1965, O'Brien continued his liaison work on the Hill...