Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Butler won his heat and went on to place fifth overall in the 440 hurdles. Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace won his long jump section, sailing 23 feet into the muddy pit, but sustained a slight leg injury that forced his withdrawal from the triple jump...
...remaining 18--including Mr. L.--did not respond to treatment, according to state authorities. The organizers of the Lafayette project approached Mr. L. because they thought he had only a slight chance of reacting favorably to treatment...
...Nixon administration does not want to talk from a position of weakness and therefore it has chosen to continue the bombing of the country with the slight hope that it could weaken the revolutionary Khmer forces...
Evenings bring a slight cooling and a certain degree of formality. The Poles, who spend the day in swimming shorts or underwear, change into their baggy uniforms and hunt-and-peck on the typewriters, turning out reports to be packeted to Can Tho. The Hungarians, who sport smart blue athletic shorts and white V-necked T shirts by day, slip on long pants and also work on reports. The Indonesians, accustomed to the daytime heat, spend all their time in full uniform. And the Canadians, who have no uniform of the day, stroll about in shorts at night...
...rebels wandered in slowly, a dozen of them, rifles swinging from their shoulders like coolie poles. Some had British-made grenades slung from their belts. All were barefoot, but a few wore red headbands that lent their otherwise raggle-taggle appearance a sort of rakish ferocity. Their leader - a slight young man with a goatee and darting eyes - identified himself as Usham Ambihal, 28, a former coconut-farm laborer...