Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...successor, Muzorewa, is a slight (5 ft.), mild-mannered man who is particularly popular with urban audiences. His garb can be flamboyant; at one campaign appearance he wore black trousers with yellow, red and green stripes and a coat of many colors. He is notoriously thin-skinned in dealing with rivals. Says a former colleague: "Muzorewa is at his best as a preacher and at his worst as a Cardinal." Though a reluctant politician at first, he waged a strenuous campaign, traveling around the country for an average of five or six appearances a day. At these he would hold...
Despite Harvard's manifest riding and clearing superiority, hard luck (Gordie Nelson hit the post three times to give him a total of seven pipe shots in two games) and Eli perseverance combined to shut out the Crimson in the third period, while Yale crept back to a slight 10-7 deficit...
Articulture is billing the festival as "Boston's first annual festival of dance," a slight overstatement, but the festival is designed as an annual event to encourage collaboration among dance companies and develop wider dance audiences. Articulture acted as the go-between, handling the public relations and series subscription campaign as well as procuring space in some of Boston's more desirable performance halls: Berklee, the Hotel Bradford Ballroom, and the Boston University Theater. Since Articulture is non-profit, funding for the $50,000 program is coming from the Mayor's Office of Cultural Affairs, the Massachusetts Contemporary Dance Association...
...buzzer ending the second round, a Doti right hand--a virtual replay of his first successful blow--leveled Crowe for a two count. Crowe recovered his equilibrium in the one-minute break and gained a slight advantage in the final encounter...
Bobby Garwood's Viet Nam saga began in Indianapolis in 1963, when the shy, slight youth dropped out of high school and, at the age of 17, enlisted in the Marines. Two years later, Garwood went to Viet Nam with the Third Marine Division, which was based in Danang. On Sept. 28, 1965, he disappeared while driving a Jeep. He was not seen by another American soldier until March 1968, when the Viet Cong herded several captured GIs into a Viet Cong prison camp in the mountains near the Laotian border. "He was on the other side, no question...