Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meeting between Emperor and President is an unprecedented incident for the slight, shy Hirohito, the 124th ruler in an unbroken line that stretches back 2,600 years. He was considered "sacred and inviolable" in prewar Japan; under the constitution imposed on Japan after the war, he became no more than a "symbol of the state and of the unity of the people." As a figure shorn of real power, the Emperor carefully avoids political discussions. The list of acceptable topics for discussion at Elmendorf, therefore, consists of little more than anecdotes about Nixon's six earlier visits to Japan...
...careful in his speech not to trample on any cherished Faculty prerogatives. Before discussing his educational ideas, he assured his audience that he didn't "mean to slight the value of research or underestimate its importance." He assured them that "Harvard students overwhelmingly refer to books as their primary source of education...
...Manchester, Vt., where Federal Judge John T. Curtin put the prohibition against reprisals into the form of a highly unusual court injunction. The brief for the injunction was drafted by a prisoner who provided an odd element in the largely black cast of rebels: Jerome S. Rosenberg, 34, a slight, round-shouldered son of a middle-class Jewish Brooklyn merchant. After a career of lesser crimes, Rosenberg was convicted eight years ago as a cop killer. Governor Nelson Rockefeller commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment in 1965, giving Jerry Rosenberg a chance to become a skilled jailhouse lawyer...
...holy oils (chrism) on the recipient's forehead and the words "I mark you with the sign of the cross and I confirm you with the chrism of salvation in the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit." The bishop also delivered a slight blow to the cheek, an adaptation of the symbolic sword stroke of medieval knighting ceremonies that meant the recipient was now a "soldier of Christ," ready to die for his faith...
...step to another sad preoccupation. "Successful suicide," Greene writes, "is often a cry for help that has not been heard in time." With some slight prurience, he describes his schoolboy attempts to cut a vein in his leg, swallow deadly nightshade berries, handfuls of aspirin and, finally, a draft of darkroom hypo-all with no serious results. But when he ran away from school at age 16, his father sent him down to London in 1920 to be psychoanalyzed. The six-month period of analysis, Greene revealingly admits, was the most peacefully pleasant time of his life, along with...