Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schussboomer leaned back in his chair and gently blow a smoke ring toward the hat Rack. With a slight tinkle it landed for a perfect ringer, and the old master went on with his tale...
...most U.S. grocery stores last week, 97? would buy what $1 bought a month ago. Nobody was certain, but most Americans were hoping that this slight dip in food prices might be the start of the downhill slide from inflation. Last week they got a jolt...
...confidence of the people. He became a secret adviser of the king. It was then too late; Mirabeau's strength was gone, and his advice was not followed, or was accepted only in part. The queen, with "her superficial and malicious intelligence, which excelled in seizing on slight slips and ridiculing them," disregarded his warnings. Readers may feel that it would not have been so tragic had it merely cost her her life, but that with it went the dream of the Rights of Man and the triumph of the Revolution which had been, until then, almost bloodless...
What they saw was far from spectacular. One small hose was introduced upon the scene, and with it and many axes, the smoke-eaters succeeded in removing the remains of a previously smouldering cigarette. Damages were slight...
...storms send "microseisms" ahead of them, he explained. These consist of very slight tremors which travel through the ground faster than a mile a second. Extra-sensitive seismographs can pick up these waves and calculate the position and direction of the storm...