Word: slights
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...leather-faced old man intently folded his pink ballot and slotted it into the box, I felt a slight lump in my throat. I'm a sucker for the rituals and realities of democracy, and here we were in the remote Chinese village of Liujiachang watching a thousand citizens in a schoolyard listen to campaign speeches and then vote for mayor. The incumbent, a slick young man elected three years ago, promised to lower taxes and improve irrigation. The challenger, older and more earthy, promised to open the village books for inspection and eloquently described how his own success...
...failed following a bitter strike that shuttered the Times for 114 days. Dryfoos' untimely death foisted the top job at the paper on young Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, the only son and youngest child of Arthur Hays and Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger. Punch's training and apparent aptitude were so slight that his father and the board of directors were reluctant to make him publisher and seriously considered having him share power with an arrogant and ineffective executive from the business side of the paper, or, more improbably, with Washington bureau chief James B. ("Scotty") Reston...
...slight man, the 22-year-old native of Jakarta spoke through an interpreter about the conditions in Nike sub-contracted factories...
...event was a slight letdown after the strong performance last week in which they finished second to MIT at the Hoyt Trophy Regatta...
...Line Careful readers of this space may remember that the Line trashed Rams QB Kurt Warner a few weeks ago. Warner responded to the slight by roasting the Falcons. Well, the Line has seen the light, climbed aboard the Warner Wagon and is hitching a ride all the way to V-I-C-T-O-R-Y. Besides, the crowd in Cincy's going to be smaller than World League audiences, so Warner will feel right at home -- Rams romp over the toothless BENGALS...