Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since 1956, in the 21-paper Newhouse chain, a puckish bon vivant and raconteur who spent his winters holding forth at Manhattan's "21," his summers traveling to faraway places, all the while striving to put his own plays up in lights (Gentlemen of the Press), but with slight success; of pulmonary edema; in Manhattan...
...chemistry for its own sake. But lack of interest is not the only factor. These students are forced to divide their time with other fields which compete for their attention. A pre-med may be taking biology and math as well as his chemistry course and not wish to slight either...
...royalty. Scandinavia's rulers have ignored this problem, on the whole, by opting for ordinariness. No one crowds around Sweden's 84-year-old King Gustaf Adolf when he walks alone through the streets. A man passing him will take off his hat with a slight bow, whereupon the King will remove his hat and bow politely in return. At state dinners, the footmen behind every other chair are restaurant waiters hired just for the occasion. Sweden is the kind of kingdom where the leader of the Communist Party, resplendent in white tie and tails, enjoys dining with...
After David Katz, President of the Yale chapter of the International Meditation Society had been laughed down attempting to explain the Indian mystic's philosophy, Maharishi appeared, half an hour late. He was a slight, dark man with a gray beard who dressed in long white robes and carried a bouquet of flowers...
Behind the slight fall-off in industry sales are many factors: the armed forces' draft of almost 400,000 young potential buyers, the stock market drop, the slower expansion in consumer credit caused by tight money. Detroit's experts figure that, excluding imports, production will dip from last year's 8,700,000 to 8,350,000 this year, and to 8,000,000 in calendar 1967-which would still make it a very good year...