Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...source of your information. Perhaps you drew on your carnivorous imagination or relied on some biographical chitchat for this impeachment of More's anti-slaughter principles. I have re-examined the Ethics of Diet by Howard Williams for some verification of this corned beef calumny, without finding the slightest substantiation. On the contrary, in More's justly famed Utopia, we find the Utopians condemning every form of slaughter, whether it be for sport, style or sustenance...
...front at attack, Hanford may cast his lot with Rick Hudner, Bill Plissner, and Dick Post, but can always fall back on a whole crew of effective men to take up a stick at the slightest provocation...
...stationed around polling places merely kept the crowds moving (the Reds tried to slow up the voting wherever they could), and minded babies while mothers cast their ballots. Some Communist members of the election boards tried, despite hawk-eyed poll watchers of the major parties, to invalidate ballots-the slightest blemish on a ballot was enough for the purpose. (One Italian columnist implored his female readers to remove their lipstick before wetting the flap of the ballot "just as if you were giving a little kiss to a man with a suspicious wife...
...without the slightest hesitation that a free, independent and friendly China is of profound importance to the peace of the world and to the position of the U.S. It is the fundamental keystone to the Pacific arch...
Despite a real knack for phrasemaking and some fine whimsical Irish fun, Where Stars Walk hasn't the faintest sense of direction, nor the slightest conception of time...