Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visitors have been installed as slight favorites, largely because they are more experienced and have more finesse than the willing but unseasoned group Lou Little is faced with this year. Kickoff time in New York...
...Rocky, had made his heavier foe look ridiculous for most of the first nine rounds. Some of Rocky's haymakers missed by feet, not inches. In the second round, he missed a right so awkwardly that he landed on the seat of his pants-with a slight shove from Fusari. For playing the role of punching bag, and almost upsetting the dope, talented, clean-living Charlie Fusari collected $24,437 (compared to Rocky's $42,765) and a chance at the welterweight crown...
...that her husband seldom got out of bed after his discharge from the Army last year except for occasional visits to the liquor store. In Hamilton, Mont., dismissing the divorce suit of Alva Palin, who had charged his wife with beating him up, District Judge C. E. Comer declared: "Slight acts of violence by the wife from which the husband can easily protect himself do not constitute cruelty...
...long-legged man with a slight paunch climbed into his 1948 Plymouth sedan in Washington last week, settled his Panama on his head and headed for Cleveland. The back of his car was piled with suitcases and a filing cabinet full of material for speeches. Sunday afternoon, with an ear-to-ear grin wreathing his spectacled face, he drove into Cleveland's southeast end and walked into the Cloverleaf Café. "Hey boys," said someone, "here's Senator Taft...
Unconnected Saucers. A slight intramural argument broke out within the Air Force after two weird and ancient flying machines were found in a tobacco barn eleven miles from Baltimore. An unofficial spokesman who announced happily that they were probably prototypes of the flying saucer was hastily reversed by another spokesman who snapped: "Absolutely no connection...