Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...joint flexors and extensors. Then Kiphuth got to work on Ford's form. After three years of bringing his stroke close to perfection, Ford has one final problem : the necessity of breathing. If he did not have to turn his head now & then, there would not be that slight, rhythm-breaking drop of the left shoulder...
...daybreak on Saturday, April 18, 1942, a bald, slight naval officer with a skin like a dried red apple stood on the bridge of the aircraft carrier Hornet, 850 miles from Tokyo. Marc Andrew Mitscher, muffled in blues, was the captain of the ship; he had small part in the decision reached by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (at his side) and Vice Admiral William F. Halsey (aboard the nearby carrier Enterprise) to fly 16 B-25 medium bombers off the Hornet for the first stunt raid on Japan's capital...
...lose. He is so strong and clean and brave"). Katharine Forbes, "frightened but calm," kept busy as a doctor's assistant, trying to hold on, but the pressures drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance...
...hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...
This dispassionate ceremony is the ritual of a mystical order of which slight, agreeable, cigaret-smoking Swami Prabhavananda is the Los Angeles leader. It is an outgrowth of a small monastic community founded in India late last century in the name of Sri Ramakrishna, one of the great teachers of Indian Vedanta, the underlying philosophy of Indian religion...