Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...identified Liberty, they maintain, and Israeli intelligence in Tel Aviv even looked her up in Jane's Fighting Ships. But the word did not reach all patrolling jet pilots and PT commanders, who expected to find only Israeli or Egyptian ships in the area. Since Liberty bears a slight resemblance to the Egyptian supply ship El Quseir, the Israeli commanders attacked. Liberty's U.S. flag was shot away during the air attack and the "holiday ensign" (7 ft. by 13 ft.) run up to replace it as the attackers bore in was obscured by flames and smoke. After...
What offends, perplexes and yet also beguiles the straight sector is hippie-dom's total disregard for approbation or disapproval. "Do your own thing," they say, and never mind what anyone else may think or do. Yet this and many hippie attitudes represent only a slight and rather engaging distortion of the Protestant Ethic
...economy, Bill Blackie left his native Scotland for the U.S., where he became an accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co. in Chicago. Since Caterpillar was one of his clients, the urbane Blackie found himself spending plenty of time at the company's headquarters. "Peoria," he recalls with a slight Scottish burr, "was something I'd not quite experienced before." He evidently liked the experience, for in 1939 he quit Price Waterhouse to become Cat's controller. He moved to president in 1962, and last year, when Harmon Eberhard stepped down after four years as Cat's chairman...
...singular and well-observed feature of war is for the view in retrospect to depart radically from that which attended the beginning. Dangers which at the outset of hostilities seemed to justify the most sanguinary steps in the perspective of years seem slight, sometimes frivolous. And prospects which at the beginning of conflict seemed easy and brilliant come to measure only the depth of the miscalculation. The case of men who in the last 30 years have planned expeditions against Moscow, Pearl Harbor and Pusan--not to mention Jerusalem and Tel Aviv--sufficiently establishes the point...
...might (1) restrain competition, (2) subject ABC's public affairs programming to unusual pressures from ITT's far-flung business interests, and (3) enable ITT to drain the network of capital that otherwise might go into broadcasting. Such fears, concluded the commission majority, "are too speculative or slight to weigh heavily in the balance...