Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Southern Secession. With nobody willing to step aside and nobody really determined to stop Kennedy, the situation of the rivals began to disintegrate. Truman endorsed Symington, as everyone expected him to, but even that had a slight boomerang quality about it. Questioned in Chicago by reporters, Truman said limply that the only thing he had against Kennedy was the fact that "he lives in Massachusetts." Campaigning in Maryland, Jack cracked back: "I have news for Mr. Truman. Mr. Symington was born in Massachusetts." In the South there were signs of an incipient secession from Lyndon Johnson. A wobbly move...
...slight, freckle-faced girl, aged 15, her cheeks reddening with embarrassment, swallowed and asked quietly: "What if someone comes home, and he starts tearing things up and kicking you around? What do you do?" Her thinly veiled hypothetical question, raised last week at a meeting in the basement of a Fort Worth church, was a stranger's standard approach. But to the 14 other teen-agers on hand it proved conclusively that the shy questioner shared with them a familiar and shattering problem: alcoholic parents...
...patient. A double room costs $14.50 as compared to $22.50 in the rest of the hospital; a single costs $16.50 compared to $28. St. Mary's carries no extra liability insurance on its mobile, self-care patients. Its position has been justified: only one person has had a slight accident...
...slight, polite, shy man of 52, Shawn was groomed for years to take over. An old New Yorker hand recalls Shawn's arrival on the staff in 1933: "To him, it was like entering the priesthood." Says James Thurber, the peerless humorist, now 65, who chronicled the earlier era in The Years with Ross: "There was no question that Ross wanted Shawn to succeed him, and the whole staff was pulling for him, too." It still is. Shawn is a gentle boss, and so sensitive to writers' feelings that he once called Drama Critic Kenneth Tynan in Havana...
...eager eye for the new and unusual told more than words. Slight, self-effacing. King Mahendra for almost 30 years was cloistered within the palace grounds at Katmandu by Nepal's hereditary family of autocratic prime ministers, the Ranas. Their century-long rule was overthrown in 1951; King Mahendra. who succeeded his father five years ago, has tried hard to learn about his own country and the outside world. He walks the hills of Nepal each summer with a retinue of 2,000, camping in an ornate tent and blessing the throngs that worship him as the reborn Hindu...