Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faith, Hope & Parity" [Oct. 21] you write: "The biggest shock to farmers was Freeman's gaffe in March expressing pleasure at a slight-if short-lived-drop in food prices. Never before had a U.S. Secretary of Agriculture publicly applauded a decrease in farm income...
...this left confusion as the only constant, even among the professional seers. An NBC poll by Oliver Quayle showed a pronounced trend for Rockefeller, while a New York Daily News canvass found O'Connor improving on a slight 3.6% lead. An ABC poll by John Kraft reported a near deadlock with O'Connor 2% ahead and the undecided still at 13%. All three indicated the minor-party candidates could get about 20% of the vote between them. Thus, it was not even certain that the winner would have a majority mandate...
Bars, which sometimes ran dry during the first few days after repeal, anticipate a long campaign to lure Mississippians away from their home and club drinking habits. Drinkers, in turn, saw a slight rise in prices as retailers-more than a third of them ex-bootleggers-boosted their markups...
...Radius. Whatever the technological facts, China's spectacular last week did little to alter the balance of raw thermonuclear power in the world. To be sure, a slight improvement...
...pomposity, caste and class snobbery. Then anger turned to almost hysterical laughter: the acerb mocking tone one hears and the swinging London air one breathes in plays like Entertaining Mr. Sloane, A Severed Head, The Killing of Sister George, Eh?, and such Pinter one-acters as The Lover, A Slight Ache and The Collection. The latest comedy to rip the stuffing out of the stuffy is How's the World Treating You?, and it is desolatingly funny...