Word: slightest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision also reflects a conviction on Eisenhower's part that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's campaign for "peaceful coexistence" and Eisenhower's own drive to ease East-West tension does not warrant the slightest relaxation of effort by the United States...
...difficulty is that the committee gives only the most cursory attention to the question of study habits and concerns itself at length with dating habits. The Faculty and the Masters, whom the Council is presumably interested in convincing, the evidenced not the slightest interest in the dating habits of undergraduates...
...country. But my job is to show off a magnificent collection to its fullest." Mrs. Frank Lloyd Wright, on hand for the opening, doubted that her husband would have shown up, even if he had been alive. "He was too great an artist," she stated firmly, "to forgive the slightest transgression in a creative work...
...committee. As originally presented, it never came near the excellent level of previous Council reports, being intemperate in language and exaggerated in scope. Such statements as, "Every student who signs the affidavit in effect forfeits the liberty of thought and expression guaranteed in the Bill of Rights... Should the slightest revolutionary idea enter his head, he commits a felony under the law," led one member of the Council to term the report "immaturely worded, overstated, and superficial...
...Think Twice." Since brevity is not a virtue of the Times's letters-to-the-editor writers, the paper has ruled that 300 words is the maximum printable length-and many aged readers suspiciously count every word, call in to protest the slightest overage. In past years, the morning Times was apt to be careless about punctual deliveries, but oldsters tend to be early risers, and now the paper reaches every subscriber's doorstep before...