Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of an eleventh-hour reassurance by Governor Saltonstall that "the bill would not give me the slightest bit of embarrassment" the forces of opposition failed to overcome a three-vote margin which denied the repealer a third hearing in the lower chamber last week...
...year-old sister when he was four. (Embellishing this miracle, his father wrote a tract credited with converting thousands of wild Indians.) At seven, after a hard-fought spiritual struggle, he attained Grace. "Since I attained the state of Sanctification," Author Smith testifies, "I have never felt the slightest twinge of conscience, never experienced for one second the sense...
Describing her daughter in detail, she asked that anyone having the slightest clue to her probable whereabouts contact the family. Her husband and another daughter, Lucy, 15, who fled through a muddy field when Mary was seized, stood beside her. Brown spoke briefly, saying that he had nothing to add to his wife's words "except that I want her back...
...short, the United Kingdom, blackmailed from Dublin, "must" simply hand over Ulster to Eire, according to Eamon de Valera, who last week made not the slightest attempt to spare British feelings. The Prime Minister of Eire, however, did seek to soothe Ulstermen over the head of its Prime Minister, Lord Craigavon of Northern Ireland...
Yesterday Dick Harlow put his squad through the usual pro-game warm-up in the Stadium. Tenseness was evident, but there is not the slightest chance that Harvard will go into today's game thinking they are beaten. Underdog though they certainly are, there is no talk of going for a "moral victory" game...