Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought this a slight mistake in description. If you will turn to the text, Chapter I, you will find Trilby's feet referred to in George Du Maurier's own words: "The shape of those lovely slender feet (that were neither large nor small...
What about the Supreme Court appointments? No comment, the President said. Could the President give a slight hint? No comment. Could the President say when he would...
Save Your Fury. Mahler's widow, now in her sixties, was a 20-year-old counterpoint student when she married the slight, 41-year-old opera conductor. His ferociousness in the orchestra pit was already a legend. By abolishing the claque and ordering latecomers toa special box, Mahler had angered performers and audiences alike. Once the musicians stubbornly refused to rehearse another note, and Mahler barked: "Gentlemen, keep your fury for the performance. Then at last we shall have [it] played as it should...
...student body to accept or reject. First reaction of dining hall gourmets will undoubtedly be to utter loud moans at the thought of gastronomic deprivation. Yet, actual balloting should reveal unqualified approval of a plan to help relieve untold suffering in Europe at the cost of very slight sacrifice here...
Izvestia's slight, greying, top war cor respondent Ilya Ehrenburg, Red Star's mustached young (30) novelist Konstantin (Days & Nights) Simonov, and Pravda's chunky General Mikhail Galaktionov had arrived the afternoon before, wilted and bleary-eyed from their trip. Now, after a good night's sleep at their Embassy, they were ready for questions...