Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision of the House of Representatives to exclude Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., can be interpreted only as a slight to America's Negroes...
Then at 15:03 the visitors took the lead for the first and last time. Dwight Ware and Ben Smith dug the puck out of a scramble and fed Bobby Bauer for a 10-footer from a slight angle...
Former number-two man Rick Sterne will remain sidelined with an injury tomorrow, and Barnaby sees only a "very slight chance" for him to play in the Intercollegiates...
Haile Selassie combats his mounting loneliness with travel and personal diplomacy, and his slight (5 ft. 4 in., 100 Ibs.) figure, topped by a face like a Byzantine icon, has become familiar to millions around the world. Last week he came to the U.S. to tell Lyndon Johnson about the problems of Ethiopia, a Christian country flanked by Moslems. The Somali Republic, a new (1960) Moslem nation on his eastern border, has laid claim to much of his land, and has backed up the claim with Russian arms and terrorist raids. One of Haile Selassie's principal aims...
Expansive Suspenders. Bean's two sons and two grandsons, who plan to carry on the business with little change, helped him over the years. But Bean remained active until his death, afflicted by little more than a slight deafness that often made him amplify his voice even beyond its usual foghorn level. Asked not long ago if he had plans for expansion, Bean bellowed: "Yes, we have some suspenders in the catalogue." The catalogue was his pride and joy, and Bean recently read galley proofs of the 100-page spring 1967 edition, which came out last week...