Word: slightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...democracy is under a slight cloud, on account of the President was recently impeached over 10 oral encounters, which was a little odd. But how else would we have found out the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court gets his fashion sense from Gilbert and Sullivan operas? We live in a great nation...
...choosing to attend college first, Blake will be at a slight disadvantage against players his own age who turned pro straight out of high school...
...choosing to attend college first, Blake will be at a slight disadvantage against players his own age who turned pro straight out of high school...
...Gertrude Stein was a stolid, heavy presence, monolithic, unladylike. She liked to gossip and had a great laugh. She boxed with welterweights for exercise. Art expert Bernard Berenson described her as looking "like a statue from Ur of the Chaldees." Alice B. Toklas was a chain smoker with a slight mustache, given to exotic dress, Gypsy earrings and manicured nails. They met in Paris in 1907. Alice, 29, found Gertrude, 33, "a golden brown presence." Gertrude insisted that Alice had heard bells heralding Stein's "greatness." Alice said Gertrude was simply struck by love at first sight...
...bite of chilies, the potatoes delighted the palate. An unusual Parsee dish from Bombay, lamb sali boti, was flavored with apricots as well as ginger and a potpourri of spices. A few potato straws floated across the top. The combination was intriguing, the savory lamb against the slight piquancy of the apricots...