Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compromise. On the second day, Vishinsky stiffened. He conceded four-power supervision of free elections for a municipal council, but he wanted to rob the council of all real power by putting it under the veto-bound four-power Kommandatura. By week's end, Vishinsky had conceded a slight limitation of the four powers' veto in the Kommandatura, but the West wanted to abolish the veto entirely, except for security matters, and leave the Berliners' own government wide powers to run its affairs...
...slight majority of the ballots voted yes for all three disciplines. The ratio of all yes to all no ballots...
...Johnson's legal mind there seemed to be a slight, nagging doubt about the propriety of a shift from Democratic moneyman to Secretary of Defense. Not long ago he told a few friends of his talk with Harry Truman. "I told the President," Johnson explained, "that I felt I had disqualified myself for any federal appointment." But Forrestal and the President "insisted" and "I had no choice ... I accepted the position, tough as I knew it was going...
Cornell, stroking higher, pulled out a slight early lead, but was overtaken half-way down the course. With a half-mile to go, Harvard had a length margin, which it increased to a length and three-quarters by the finish...
...slight, mild man who likes bow ties and baseball, Professional Stranger Stewart sprinkles his columns liberally with names, reports on the collection plate, the size of the "house," and the number of times that the congregation stands, sits and kneels. (At the Unity Evangelical Lutheran Church, reported Stewart, "it would be difficult ... to try to snooze" because everybody is always bobbing up & down...