Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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World War II saved Royal from the fruit-picking odyssey. He joined the U.S. Army Air Force in 1943 and played for the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. After the war, Oklahoma Coach Jim Tatum had little trouble persuading the slight (5 ft. 11 in., 158 lbs.) quarterback to come home and try his hand at college ball. In 1947, Royal's sophomore year, Tatum was replaced by a youngster named Bud Wilkinson. Under Wilkinson's guidance Royal was named All-America quarterback in 1949. But the pro scouts considered him small, and he drifted into coaching...
...easing in policy, whenever it comes, will be slight and gradual. The erratic swings-from extreme looseness to tightness and back again-in past Federal Reserve policy have created an economic credibility gap. Businessmen, consumers and labor leaders generally seem convinced that at the first signs of recession, the Federal Reserve will again switch to an open-handed expansion. This time the change must be carried out with such finesse that, as one high Administration policymaker says, "there will be a guessing game for months." Bankers, businessmen and economists will have to try to figure out whether or not movements...
...that either Roda or sophomore Rex Blankenship would be the choice. From the performance of both players in the past few games. there seemed to be no clear-cut heir to Dave Smith's job. But Yoviesin admitted that Roda, primarily from his work in practice sessions, had a slight edge...
...before-tax income under $2,000 paid 11.5 per cent in total City taxes. As family income rose, this steadily decreased to 5.7 per cent for a family with income between $10,000 and $15,000 Families making over $15,000 paid an average of 74 per cent, a slight increase but still less than for families with below poverty-level incomes...
...Castro, a slight, handsome Chicano leader, walks with me through the broken, crumbling barrios of East Los Angeles and tells me: "We have a new nationalism now. There is no more Tio Taco, which is our version of Uncle Tom. We may be a few years behind the blacks in our militance, but we are getting there very fast...