Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lifebelt containing a tube full of sulphuric acid and a portion of bicarbonate. Any slight jar breaks the tube, generates carbon dioxide which automatically inflates the belt...
Motoring in his Ford roadster over wet roads from Soestdyk Palace to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, fast-driving Prince Consort Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld* saw a heavy sand-laden truck shoot out from a side road. Prince Bernhard slammed on his brakes, skidded, collided with the truck. With a slight concussion, a gash across his face, he was hospitalized, sewed up, put to sleep. His first visitor was Mother-in-Law Wilhelmina. Second visitor (against doctor's orders): Wife Juliana, who expects to present him with an heir in January...
...union employees of the University will be forced, for the sake of their job, either to join the union or to leave and seek another position. Such an abandonment of these who have worked here for many years, who relish its protection through the guarantee of steady work, with slight chance of dismissal for economic or political reasons, who benefit by its group insurance and pension plans, is unlike the attitude that should be assumed by a liberal employer...
...three young women are described as being completely without inhibitions and repressions, and although that may be a slight overstatement, they do manage to take a good deal of the monasticism out of the boarding school. They make their room the stamping-ground of a campaign to do something for Donkin, the housemaster. He is beginning to suffer for his unsuccessful resistance against the inhumanity of the grotesquely pious housemaster. The three young women start things off with a cocktail housewarming in the middle of the night, thus beginning a merry demoralization that almost results in the ruin...
Reason for this apparent slight to the name of the late, socially prominent George Alexander McKinlock, onetime utility executive and a generous Northwestern benefactor, was quickly explained...