Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been so foxy after all. According to an impressive roster of military experts appearing on West German TV, World War II Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was far from the brave and brilliant commander Hitler had cracked him up to be. Rommel's understanding of strategy was "slight," said General Ulrich de Maiziere, the Bundeswehr's chief of staff. After studying the archives, the program's director said: "He couldn't work with large bodies, and he panicked when faced with great tasks." Rommel's appeal to Hitler, suggested General Wolf von Baudissin, was that...
...feeling magnified by Craig's addiction was his sense of physical inferiority: a bout with polio at age two had left him with a shortened arm. The defect was so slight that most of his friends were not aware of it, and it did not keep him from becoming expert at tennis and skiing. Yet on the tape he said. "I've lived with my physical condition, but I really can't cope with it." In the end he even doubted his sanity: "After you've taken so much of that stuff, you just really...
Triple-Threat Attack. If Marinaro were piling up his yardage in the Big Ten, he would be a shoo-in for this year's Heisman Trophy. As it is, the patsy image of the Ivy League makes him at best only a slight favorite to take the trophy. Though no Ivy Leaguer has won the Heisman since Princeton's Dick Kazmaier copped the honor in 1951, Yale's Calvin Hill lent the league some luster when he joined the Dallas Cowboys three years ago and ran off with the N.F.L.'s Rookie of the Year award...
...aged man with a round face and Marty Allen hairdo. Arthur suggested that the differences among the group were small compared with "common priorities" they shared: "I still think that, out of our common background, the religious community, our number one priority should be 'Stop the Killing,'" Chris, a slight young man with long hair and glasses, dismissed this as "off-the-wall," contending that they must understand their differences and be "up front" about them. He favored a "radical analysis," emphasizing the interrelation of all the inequities inherent in American capitalism...
Princeton, Harvard and Yale have all met Penn, and they've all gotten clobbered. Harvard lost to Penn 15-47 while Yale and Princeton each lost 15-50. If a comparison of the Penn races means anything. Harvard should be the slight favorite: Harvard's first man against Penn placed eighth while the Tiger's number one man could only manage a tenth place finish...