Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...still cannot understand why a ballad about Evangelist Billy Graham prompted threats of a lawsuit (sample lyrics: "To the hills of North Carolina/ Where the Smokies dot the land/ God sent a new boy baby/ And he called him Billy Graham"). Fourteen years ago, McEnery also achieved some slight notoriety by handcuffing himself to a piano and writing 52 original songs in eight hours without getting up. When the plight of Pilot Powers swam into McEnery's vision, he waited, he says, to be sure that Powers was "a real American hero" and not "a turncoat or something like...
...date, 303 U.S. children have had the test vaccine; virtually all have responded by developing solid antibody protection against natural measles. Most have had a slight fever in the process, but none have become seriously ill. If wider-scale testing confirms these results, the vaccine may be licensed and generally available in about two years...
George W. Corner, is that of the Dionne quintuplets. Developed from a single fertilized ovum, which then repeatedly sub divided, all the girls had the defect. Fortunately, it was minor : nothing more than a slight webbing between the second and third toes of each foot...
Recounting his work with IBM computing machines in a series of two lectures given Tuesday and Wednesday, he first commented that "results have been slight so far, but better than I expected," but later pointed out limitations in machine logic. In his first talk, Wang concentrated on his personal experiences with the machines and his theoretic study of solving problems in logic; Wednesday he considered "artificial intelligence" in general...
Skillfully skirting the borders of fee-fi-fo-flummery, FitzGibbon evokes both moral disintegration and mortal blow with a chilling casualness that sometimes has the ring of day-after-tomorrow's newspaper. To achieve his grisly effect, he painstakingly puts together a mosaic of slight things that seem to have gone wrong in the commonplace of today-the "crack in the teacup [that] opens a lane to the land of the dead...