Word: slights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bland suggestion concerning Chernenko's whereabouts was eerily similar to the explanations given out about Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months. Just a few weeks before his death, Andropov was said to be recuperating from a slight ailment. A similar denial was issued shortly before Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov died from a heart attack...
Mood Indigo II: An Original Jazz Collage, for all its slight problems, remains an exceptionally well-conceived performed creation. As an exposition of jazz past and potential, it provides a stimulating. If not entirely satisfactory, study into the power of must easy to listen to, but difficult to completely understand. As one of the company notes, pondering the mystery. "As long as it's swinging and feels good, it's Jazz." This weekend, the Agassiz Theatre may be the best place between the East River and the Charles to find some answers...
...Crimson did not intend any slight whatsoever against Currier House. We understand that the opinions of "an obviously distraught" freshman do not reflect life in Currier House. We were in error and regret the publication of the Photogranh The Editors
Last Saturday, an 11-year-old boy who fell through the ice near the Anderson Bridge was pulled to safety by a rescue team, Murray said. The boy suffered slight hypothermia...
...problem, as always, is how to evaluate the ephemeral evidence. Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov, who died last February after being out of public view for six months, had been said by Kremlin officials to be recuperating from a slight ailment just a few weeks before his death. On Nov. 7, Politburo Member Victor Grishin told a Western newsman that Marshal Ustinov had only "a little sore throat." Ustinov died of cardiac arrest following pneumonia...