Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Bertha Mae but his three daughters. Mrs. Mildred Felis, Mrs. Anna Ehrman, Mrs. Blanche Miller, their three husbands, and a family friend named Miss Margaret Robertson. Apparently sturdy, the Womacks had for several years proved more susceptible to injury than any family in the U. S. The slightest jolt of a bus or taxicab was enough to send a Womack sprawling. In elevators and department stores in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Tennessee, the Womacks repeatedly stumbled over the smallest objects-light cords, tools, lipsticks, cigaret lighters, mousetraps, nails, pencils, or briar pipes-many of which had not been...
...TIME, Dec. 6). The raid had also netted three Hotchkiss machine guns and 71 automatic rifles, but these cases contained hand grenades. The firing lever of each grenade was held down by a band of paper. Since many were damp, the paper bands seemed likely to break at the slightest shock...
...sound, I had not been aware that I was writing words. ... I liked the sound of 'Kike' . . . but I had no idea that it was confined to a definite racial group, and I certainly had no conception of its explosiveness. ... To offend I had not the slightest intention. ... I am not 'anti-Semite!' Some of my very best friends are Jews. ... I have suffered and am still suffering profoundly by the consciousness of having caused so much trouble and annoyance to Conde Nast, who was not merely my employer, but the dearest, kindest and most understanding...
...which is a conventional abbreviation for "Your obedient servant who kisses your feet." It is rarely written out. The general was being coldly and stiffly polite, and his wife could not have taken the slightest offense...
Meanwhile, Chinese civilians, who had hoped that the arrival of the Japanese would mean at least a return of peace & safety, were shot down on the slightest pretext until there were scores of bodies in the streets. Houses and shops were looted, women raped and the whole city ravaged according to an immemorial custom of war. Even fleeing refugees with whom the Japanese caught up were looted of their belongings. Only after the Japanese soldiers, drunk with victory, had been out of hand for several days did officers get them under control...