Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whirling propeller, skip along the water like a flat stone thrown from shore, tossing spray with the sting of buckshot. No one knows how fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like a fighter strip as the nation's 14 fastest hydroplanes roared off in the top race of the year: the Gold...
...people quite unlike the present-day aborigines. Sharply designed and hauntingly evocative, they suggest a lost civilization with its own unnamed gods and elaborate ritual. Some paintings show boomerangs, the aborigine's weapon, but boomerangs were used in several parts of the prehistoric world. Lommel has not the slightest notion what the pictures signify, but believes they prove Australia must have been in contact during prehistoric times with other continents. Possibly the rock pictures were made by some ancient migratory tribe from Indonesia, which either perished, moved on, or was absorbed...
...Better to see once than hear a hundred times"). As the party set out for the U.S. embassy, Nixon stopped long enough to shake hands with bystanding Russians in the manner that had served him well through Britain, Asia, Latin America and Africa. But the Russians had not the slightest idea...
...work in industry. "From the time they entered the Naval Academy, they've led a sheltered existence. Their friends are all in the service." As for himself, Rickover declared that "there never has been one single incident where any influence or anyone visiting me has had the slightest impact or effect on my program," and the audience burst into laughter and applause. Prodded again and again by Chairman Hébert, Rickover reluctantly agreed to submit a confidential list of names and incidents for the committee to examine...
...ready to make concessions at the slightest menace, there will be a war within 20 years...