They are damned strange cruel men, clannish and proud to a fault, thirsty for vengeance over imagined slights, hard-drinking, and inhumanly tough.
She could hear the slightest noise in the hallway, and it was a little hard to get used to.
John F Kennedy, who defeated Nixon in 1960, was a senator, two years into a second term, whose illnesses and absences made his congressional record notably slight and hard to judge.
He looked like a teen-ager, and had a sharp, handsome face, a slight frame, and hard eyes, which the student who brought me to him sternly instructed me not to look into.
Yet there is a risk that his relations with the U.S., at least initially, could be more businesslike than warm, owing to an American slight that is hard for him to forget.
The smear campaign against my slight frame was hard enough on my ego, but the worst part was being flat-chested while everyone around me was "sprouting" (grossest word alert).
The two leads excel in a graphic, if slight, story of hard-up scouse teens finding escape in sex.
"Some are becoming more willing to take a slight curve, but no hard 90 degrees".
The weather was perfect, a cloudless sky, with a slight breeze, making a hard, dry field, and conditions favored polo of the fastest description.
He left the impression that if the rest of the world would give Congress the lower dues it wants for the regular United Nations budget, there might be a slight relaxation of the hard line on reducing American payments for peacekeeping.
