Word: smallish
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...remarkable thing happened. I was photocopying several pages from the Emergency Preparedness Digest when I spotted a smallish demure woman copying Jane's Defense Weekly. In fact, she was copying issue after issue. I sauntered over to her copy machine and began to riffle through one of the issues she was done with. "I was wondering what the readership of this sort of magazine was like," I explained to the woman. She fixed me an odd look and replied that she was only doing research, she didn't know...
...particular, council members say they have been told that the University may plan to boot undergraduates who aren't eating during peak hours from the smallish space...
Punches were thrown, noses broken, and heads looked. It looked like the re-enactment of some pathetic Civil War battle. Some kid even managed to steal a Yale College flag. And dozens of smallish students were chased around by dozens of biggish students. It was thoroughly ridiculous...
...show rarely witnessed in the late 20th century: long gowns printed with cabbage roses and exotic shawls that must be relics of Britain's imperial past. For many in the Glyndebourne audience, the evening's high point is the single, 80-minute intermission, when the ladies stride onto the smallish lawn to seize and defend their favorite picnic spot and lay out a lobster and strawberry feast as cows gaze at them indifferently from the other side...
...five minutes, he heard a short, musical, descending call -- the "keer" of a marbled murrelet. Huge, dark shapes began to coalesce in the lightening gray: the enormous trunks of redwoods and Douglas firs. By full light, Thron had tallied 23 calls from murrelets. In this April nesting season, these smallish, fast-flying seabirds trade chores in a quick exchange at dawn. The parent freed of egg-sitting duty arrows off at 55 m.p.h. for Humboldt Bay to fish for breakfast. Thron was pleased; the murrelets are endangered because they need redwood canopies to shield their nest sites from crows...