Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such a popular boost that some gloating Tories began talking of a snap national election to cash in ("We are riding the crest of the wave"). But Macmillan, who can resist popular outcries if he thinks them wrong (as in his refusal to suspend nuclear tests), showed not the slightest sign of approaching the summit defensively...
...General Says." No one, of course, had the slightest idea "how long it will last." The marines grimly took over the airport, and on the first night all was quiet. Next morning, when the marines planned to move into Beirut proper, U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Robert McClintock plunged into conference with handsome, stubborn President Chamoun, and elusive General Fuad Shehab, 56-year-old chief of Lebanon's armed forces. True to form, Shehab, who had steadfastly refused to commit bis forces to an all-out assault against the pro-Nasser rebels, refused to commit himself firmly to cooperation with...
...Teen-agers who bristle to the defense of their rock-'n'-roll idols upon the slightest criticism from adults will doubtless be able to dream up some excuse for the deplorable antics of our latest good-will ambassador, Jerry Lee Lewis. I wonder how many of them, after reading your story, bothered to turn to the Education section and read how Pat Boone, a really good singer, can also win fame (and a degree, magna cum laude, from Columbia) and still be a nice guy with a spotless personal life...
What I cannot understand is why Americans are getting into such a tizzy about a single chief of staff. We have had one in England for a long time, and he has never shown the slightest predilection of becoming a czar...
...church. Such an interpretation of events would be woefully erroneous. We simply must face the fact that for the Protestant this action confirms him in his Protestantism." On the other hand, in the Protestant-Catholic dialogue, he said, the Protestant must understand "that the Catholic hasn't the slightest intention of becoming a Protestant...