Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsomest Chinese fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations" is what slight, Hawaiian-born Lieut. Kong calls himself (he is the only one; there are a few Chinese-American bombermen). He got into flying by way of the Corps of Engineers, for which he worked as a chem ist after he finished the University of Hawaii. Between missions he tries to teach other pilots Hawaiian without nota ble success. They cannot even learn to say "Hemakana Hewahewa Okalani Yim," which is his niece Shirley's Hawaiian name...
High Test. In Italy, Army Intelligence Officer Orville L. McDonald, of Goose Creek, Tex., took a pull at a coffee canteen, got quite a jag out of the gasoline that was in it, later admitted that he had a "slight hangover...
...Tenshi-Sami, the most influential living poet (better known as Hirohito, Emperor of Japan), had "a very slight cold." An outdoor poetry party was called off until he felt better...
...last week's final word on the jet plane came from its designer, slight, dark, publicity-shy Group Captain Whittle: "I am completely embarrassed. Damn it, I wish I had been a doctor...
...from "unusual" people has been confined to the telephone. Some time back, if there are any officers on board who can remember, I wrote about the now famous telephone call from a well-meaning and serious female who wanted an officer to mind her baby at night for a slight remuneration. My answer to her was, you may recall, "How old is the baby...