Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hazard in an earthworm's uncertain life: burrowing beetles, bloodthirsty slugs, spiders and porcupines are all constant menaces. Worms stay below ground until nightfall, when they can safely emerge to do their courting and prowling. Living such a life, the earthworm is intensely nervous and sensitive to the slightest vibration of danger. Though blind, it has learned to pick up the tremors of an approaching sparrow and to snap back into its hole like a rubber band...
General Clark, back in Vienna, had a military metaphor that summed up the conference: "Russia gave us impossible demands, echeloned in depth." The conference, said the Paris independent Combat, "failed beyond all expectations, and since much was not expected, it would be sheer folly to express the slightest optimism...
...Explosion. The second charge was more serious. Certainly the most important factor in current food prices was the abnormal exports. The Government's much-criticized support buying, as Harry Truman said, was so far a negligible factor (see BUSINESS). But a sensitive price structure reacted violently to the slightest change in normal domestic supply. Washington economists figure that the index of farm prices rises 17 points every time the U.S. sends $500 million worth of food abroad. This index has risen from 209 in March 1946 to 280 in April...
This morning Americans by the millions will tune their radios to the early newscasts to learn if the telephone strike whose certainty was termed beyond the "slightest question" has become a reality, or has been staved off by an eleventh hour formula pulled from Secretary Schwellenbach's fedora. Both sides have indicated willingness to submit to arbitration the unions' demands for higher wages and pensions, longer vacations, and other fringe issues. But, only a few hours before the strike deadline, there is still a large area of disagreement as to how the arbitration should be effected, particularly if it should...
...letter to Richard D. Campbell, Jr. '48, Committee Chairman, LaGuardia stated, "I heartily endorse the Harvard Food Relief drive. I commend it to every thinking and peace-loving American. There is so much hardship and poverty in this world of ours and help so much needed that even the slightest contribution will do great good...