Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when only 200,000 nonwhites were in the country, white ire, helped by a slight rise in unemployment, sparked race riots in Nottingham and London's Netting Hill and Paddington districts. Since then, there have been no major outbreaks, but the underlying resentment remains strong, and both political parties have been understandably wary of antagonizing the white 98% of the electorate. Labor violently opposed the Tories' 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, but reversed itself and last winter decided to extend the law. The Tories were only too glad to oppose last week's bill on the ground that...
Harvard's varsity baseball team will meet Yale in Splinter Stadium at 3 p.m. tomorrow, and the Crimson probably rates a slight favorite to notch its fifth EIBL victory of the season...
...should be one of the day's best races. Army's Rance Farrell and Jim Jenkins, Navy's Jim Prout, and Sam Robinson have all posted times in the low 0:48's this spring. Farrell, because of his greater experience, rates a slight...
...offer a slight correction to your admirable account of my affair with that cow (in the CRIMSON of Saturday, May 1). The consolatory verses that you quoted were of course only a remodeling of the well-known lines from Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubalyat of Omar Khayam...
...always looked and sounded like the ruggedest of his rugged breed. Yet three months after cigar-chomping General Curtis E. LeMay, 58, retired as Air Force Chief of Staff, the Pentagon revealed that he had suffered a slight attack of Bell's palsy back in 1942, was also troubled by a pesky prostate, impaired hearing and poor eyesight. As a result, medics pronounced LeMay "60% disabled," which means he gets 60% of his $16,500 annual retirement pay tax free (but he will still be allowed to pilot his private plane). In 35 years of service, said the doctors...