Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contracts let to Howard Hughes, the West Coast plane builder, movie producer and bachelor millionaire. Last February, the SWIC, now headed by Maine's loud and mistrustful Owen Brewster, sniffed at Hughes again. The committee was still sniffing cautiously last week when a rank outsider, slight, swarthy Society Columnist Igor Cassini (Cholly Knickerbocker), suddenly lit on an angle that took the sniffing out of congressional back rooms and into the headlines. The Hughes probe was loaded with girls...
Secretary of State George C. Marshall had a slight diplomatic exchange in Frederick, Md. He got lost while driving to a friend's house there; after cruising for almost an hour was set straight by a passerby, who observed: "You have a big job on your hands, General." Replied Marshall: "If I don't do any better than I did driving ... I won't do so well...
...general secretary and boss of the National Union of Mine Workers, Arthur Horner controls the key to Britain's survival-coal. No matter how much aid the U.S. gives Britain and the Continent, Europe cannot recover unless Britons mine more coal. After a slight increase last spring, coal production is falling off again. That was the gist of Fuel and Power Minister Emanuel Shinwell's report to the House of Commons last week...
Lovers. In the snack bar of Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport, a German girl sits with her G.I. fiancé. He is a slight, blond boy of perhaps 18; she is a blonde, bulging, overbearing, with a broad, white face, narrow, calculating eyes and a smile like the flat glare of an electric light that turns on & off at the touch of a switch. She leans with both elbows on the table and in a loud and domineering voice orders ice cream from the tired German waitress, while the boy follows her movements with a young...
...centenarian, who arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1863, is in good health except for a slight deafness and eyesight that is a bit dimmer than...