Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sprinter Wayne Andersen reached the semifinals of the NCAA indoor 60-yard dash, but he still hasn't hit his peak outdoors. He has run the 100 yard dash in 9.6 and 9.7 with the aid of slight following winds. In the IC4A finals, however, he tripped at the start, and finished last, leaving his official best time...
...than as a collector's item [May 28]. The tall rounded capitals show her artistic ability, and the regularity in the size of her letters and the straightness of her lines indicate strong will and ability to stick to any course she chooses. She enjoys solitude, as the slight backward slant of her handwriting shows, although her large script reveals that she doesn't mind being the center of attention. She is quite frugal-notice that there is hardly any margin on either side, and little on the top or bottom of each page...
...starts across the U.S. are down 8% from a year ago despite gains in March and April. But in the West, where a quarter of the nation's new housing is normally concentrated, the decline is much sharper because of earlier overbuilding, cutbacks in defense industries and a slight slowdown in the influx of new families. More than 50,000 completed houses remain unsold in California, according to Bank of America officials. Says Los Angeles Entrepreneur Jerome Snyder: "Builders in trouble here seem to be more the rule than the exception...
...Germany's leaders have often said, the enormities of the Nazi past cannot, in a sense, be expiated; one reason that the Germans are so sensitive to every real or fancied slight is that they themselves are unable to forget. But the Germans never really had a full chance to come to terms with their guilt feelings: less than four years after their defeat, they passed from being pariahs to valuable pawns in the East-West struggle-a bewildering and indecent haste hardly calculated to reinforce any moral lessons. Moreover, West Germany has become a youthful nation: over half...
...bars, lounges and public galleries, and in its ample pantries carries 23,000 liters of wine, 3,500 liters of champagne and Asti Spumante and 330 Ibs. of Iranian caviar. The ship also carries, however, a technical flaw common to many new ships: strong vibrations caused by slight faults in the propellers, which will be replaced when it returns to Genoa...