Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter's opaque one-acters are skilled finger exercises on the theme of dread...
...seen and tested no fewer than 20,000 middle-aged men and women, found most in poor physical shape. "Those who scored higher in tests of strength and endurance," says he, "showed a better balance of blood distribution and superior blood flow." From protruding abdomens to breathlessness after slight exertion-unless a physician's careful exam rules it out-Cureton's antidote is exercise...
...event, when the time came, Kennedy approved the proposed invasion. According to Schlesinger, the President strictly stipulated that "the plans be drawn on the basis of no U.S. military intervention." Sorensen recalls that stipulation with slight but highly significant differences. Kennedy, he said, insisted that there be no "direct, overt" participation of "American armed forces in Cuba...
...pensions, unemployment or sickness benefits, considers sons to be his best insurance against impoverished old age. Beyond this, a gain in the economy can be a mixed blessing. Of the 40% of the world's population that normally goes hungry, about one-fourth are Indians. Even a slight increase in their standard of living means that they would eat better food and grow healthier-and that would send their birth rate...
Teach-in sponsors said there was "a very slight chance" that the Rev. Martin Luther King could be induced to appear. In a speech last week Kind called for a negotiated peace in Vietnam, and said he would consider taking his followers into the "teach-in movement...