Word: slightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Fires broke out yesterday afternoon in both the Loeb Drama Center and Lowell House. Although neither was serious, the damage at Loeb may force a slight in the theatre's opening, according to the Cambridge Fire Department...
Sense of Unreality. When he was beaten by Jack Kennedy in 1952, Cabot Lodge thought his political career over for good. He still has a slight sense of unreality about suddenly being very much back in politics, running for Vice President of the U.S. "It's a very strange feeling," he said at the start of his campaign tour. "I haven't gotten used...
...election in at least 25 years has sentiment been so closely divided or opinion so fluid." So wrote Dr. George Gallup last week after taking his third poll of the presidential campaign. For the first time since the conventions, Kennedy took the lead, if a slight one. Asked which candidate they favor or "lean" toward favoring, 48% of the voters chose Kennedy, 47% Nixon. Only 5% were undecided (a percentage considered too low by both candidates). In Gallup's first poll, immediately after the Republican Convention, Nixon led Kennedy 50% to 44%. In the second poll the two were...
...matchless in the West. At 41, jewel-like Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn is one year beyond the age at which it was once rumored she would retire. But she exhilarated audiences with her fluid, exquisite enchaine-ment and her seemingly gravity-free grace, though purists insisted they detected a slight falling-off from the sureness of her performance in New York three years ago. Later in the week the troupe unpacked La Fille Mai Gardée, one of history's first ballets (1789), which has been added to the repertory along with Ondine, Antigone and Le Baiser...
...rocks, and sit there waiting for food to come within grabbing range. Its perception can be tested by tempting it with bits of food or with things that look more or less like food, and it can be educated by a system of rewards and punishments, such as slight electric shocks. The octopus readily learns, for example, that a square card poked at it must not be touched. With it goes a shock. But an oval card should be seized; right behind it comes dinner...