Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 1,100,000 veterans and their widows and orphans. The payoff, long advocated by the American Legion, would amount to $10 billion, spread over 40 years. The House, by voice vote, went along with the Senate, but the chances of the bill escaping a veto were slight...
...strong, silent sluggers may send a ball soaring toward the Capitol dome. Even lowly Kansas City won eleven in a row for the season's longest string, had the fans overflowing Municipal Stadium (capacity: 30,611) and sitting on the grass in leftfield. And when a slight, cold-eyed relief pitcher named Elroy Face (15-0) begins to throw his forkball, Pittsburgh can beat the world...
...payoff has been slight: a scant 480,000 tons of oil last year (compared to Kuwait's 70 million tons). But the promise is enough to give some substance to Charles de Gaulle's dreams of the grandeur of France. For if the Sahara's already proven oil reserves-conservatively estimated at 700 million tons-can be successfully tapped and marketed, France will no longer have to lay out some $300 million a year in hard-won foreign exchange to pay for the oil needed to keep French industry and transport running. More important yet, France will...
...wouldn't the globe-girdling radio waves also bounce off the trail of ionized gases left by a high-altitude rocket or the cloud of ionized gases created by a nuclear explosion? Then, if there were even a slight difference in the returning echo patterns-and if receivers could be made sensitive enough to detect the difference -monitoring oscilloscopes could display telltale evidence of what the waves had encountered on their travels. Since these radio waves bounce around the earth, the new method would overcome the limitation of radar, whose line-of-sight waves travel in straight lines, thus...
...Institute of Ophthalmology the researchers found their man: an old-age pensioner, 71, who had had both eyes removed because of injury and infection (not trachoma). Into his empty eye sockets the researchers inoculated their egg-grown trachoma virus. He had considerable discomfort for the first week, and slight discomfort for two weeks more. Though his conjunctiva continued to secrete infective virus, he has needed no treatment...