Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although Wolfe felt oppressed by New England morality, there is no evidence that it had the slightest real effect on him. His letters refer to various affairs, and the writings of the last year especially are filled with allusions to a particular unnamed girl. On one occasion he wrote: "Last night I was caught in the Harvard Yard with a girl... doing the worst I could. The yard-cop was fat and portentious. `Mister,' says he, breathing heavily through his mouth, `this has got to stop...
...test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William R. Frye, "students of Soviet diplomacy are leaning toward the theory that Moscow never wanted to stop testing, that it proclaimed a unilateral halt last March without the slightest intention of making the cessation permanent, and that the whole objective of Soviet diplomacy in this area is to avoid a test ban without assuming the onus for so doing...
...subject to double vision. Now both NBC and ABC are trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk's Wednesday show (ABC) was broadcast nationwide in stereo, i.e., two different mikes feeding the schmalz into two transmitters. Fans yearning to catch the slightest nuance in each oom-pah-pah could turn on their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped 75 stations with the TV-radio...
...Village. At Kuning-tou, on the northwest tip of the island, I found a village of 2,000 people virtually deserted. Three weeks ago the streets were full of children, pigs, chickens and ducks. Now the pigs snort angrily in their concrete pens, the chickens scatter hysterically at the slightest noise, but the villagers are gone from dawn to darkness in search of safer places...
Harvard's slightest worry will be on the ground defense. The line, with Hank Keohane, captain Bob Shaunessy, Jim Keating, Bob Foster, Hal Anderson, Pete Briggs, and Stu Hershon held Buffalo to less than 50 yards rushing last week, and Crimson opponents all year will find this unusually strong unit a tough nut to crack...