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Word: slights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is still a slight possibility that the new Design School will not be constructed on the Hunt Hail site. At least four other choices have been studied as a place for the building, but all were rejected for one reason or another...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: $2 Million U.S. Grant Aids School of Design | 12/1/1965 | See Source »

...Jeff Grant, starting at 177 for Harvard with only slight varsity experience, provided the most encouraging omen for the Crimson's chances this season. Displaying more muscle and confidence than he had last season, Grant manhandled Dave Penny for the first two periods before grinding him down and pinning him at 1:47 of the third...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Wrestlers Bash M.I.T. | 12/1/1965 | See Source »

Clearly, verse was not Faulkner's form; but talent will out. Here and there beneath these slight conventional measures, the primeval force that fills the novels flexes disturbingly, like an anaconda in organdy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Nov. 26, 1965 | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...Ohio, played quarterback when his roommate was setting a school rushing record at halfback, and was Pont's top assistant at both Miami and Yale. The style of football played at the Bowl this season, then, is much the same as spectators saw in Harvard Stadium last year, with slight variations due to changes in personnel...

Author: By Ralph Hobart, | Title: Yale Will Sport Double Wing Attack Tight Defense, In New Haven Today | 11/20/1965 | See Source »

...troops were ordered to dig in along the Zambesi River border with Zambia, causing President Kenneth Kaunda nervously to declare a state of emergency and order his own small army to dig in on the other side "as a protective measure." Although the chances of a clash seemed slight, it was just the sort of ugly situation that through some unexpected fluke might lead to violence-and a need for British troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: The White Rebels | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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