Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London after his final briefing in Rome to present Italy's case. His country was in neither a position nor a mood for hard bargaining. It planned to make concessions from the very first, in the hope of trading territory for Allied good will and economic help. A slight "rectification" of the French-Italian border would be acceptable. Italians would not argue long or loud to keep the South Tirol. Greece could have the Dodecanese Islands. Italy was resigned to losing Libya, including Cyrenaica - provided Yugoslavia did not become a colonial power at Italy's expense...
Then she cooed: "Now, most Washingtonians are convinced that Mrs. Truman intended no slight in not receiving Madame Chiang. It is the sort of misunderstanding which could undoubtedly have been cleared up overnight-long before the rumor mills began grinding out their bitter chaff-if the distaff side of the White House maintained any sort of 'diplomatic' relations with the press...
...year-old "mad genius," slight and nervous looking, who preferred riches (his forgeries earned him $3,024,000) to fame, had avoided detection by meticulous adherence to 17th-Century materials and techniques. Some of his paints were purchased in London, others he made himself, grinding up genuine lapis lazuli for his blues, and cochineal for his reds...
Hustling, 37-year-old Frederick L. Hovde first caught Purdue's eye as the slight (155 Ibs.), swift Minnesota quarterback who slid through the holes made by grid-great Bronko Nagurski, to become the Big Ten's top scorer in 1928. He went on to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, became the third American ever to make the Rugby varsity. There he caught the eye of Alan Valentine, his predecessor as U.S. man on the Oxford varsity. Hovde went back to the University of Minnesota, joined its faculty. After Valentine became president of the University of Rochester...
Professorial-looking Bigart, who talks with a slight stammer, joined the Herald Tribune in 1929 as an office boy, in 1933 began writing church news, finally worked up to fires and murders. In early 1943, when papers began converting young police reporters into war correspondents, Bigart was sent to England...