Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is also an anti-volcano faction. One eminent American astronomer, who does not want to commit himself publicly until he has digested still more evidence, is highly skeptical. He has examined Alphonsus and has seen no slightest change. He has heard that some Soviet astronomers have their doubts about Kozyrev. They suggest that "he thinks that it is his destiny to make a great discovery." When Kozyrev made the spectrograms, he did not mention them to his colleagues at the Crimean Observatory. Instead, he rushed off to Moscow and a week later held a press conference to announce...
Shelley scarcely seems to try. He merely offers solemn, almost sorrowful comments on some of the irritating incongruities of modern life. Take air travel, says Shelley, with the carefully controlled tension of a man who has already taken altogether too much. "I never have the slightest doubt about my safety in a plane until I walk into an airport terminal and realize that there is a thriving industry in this building selling life insurance policies . . . What they do by this power of suggestion is that they plant the seed of doubts into an already chicken human being...
...never stable; for one issue the Utah State Prison's Pointer News had an "Editor at Large" on the masthead after its editor in chief resigned suddenly by escaping prison. Cell-block correspondents are notoriously jealous authors, who quit in pique at the slightest editing of their copy...
...deep-sea fish, all strictly restricted in the U.S. Here I can step into my car and drive wherever I like, certain that at the end of the day I will find a good hotel and a good restaurant, and that I can sit down without attracting the slightest attention, or exciting curiosity. In Sweden, that's still another matter; they run after you there. I can do without that...
...musing about the meaning of ceremony in a democracy: "The Imperial State Crown, the Cap of Maintenance, the Sword of State, the Heralds, the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshals make up a beautiful charade, but if all were swept away tomorrow it would make not the slightest difference to the government of the country...