Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agostino trotted out next to face a foe he had beaten each of the last two years by a single point. This time, however, he suffered a slight concussion in the first period and went down to a 6-4 defeat that ended his hopes for an undefeated season before they even got off the ground. D'agostino lost only once last year...
...House went along with the scheme, with slight modifications but the Senate rejected it. Instead, it proposed a $47 billion package to general revenue grants and subsidies to help industry convert from oil heating to coal, and to aid energy companies in developing unconventional sources like shale oil. The wellhead-tax dispute is the most difficult issue the conference committee faces. Supporters of the tax argue that without it, the oil companies would be handed a bonanza of unearned profits because they would get much more for oil that had already been discovered and was already profitable to sell...
...only was the Russian demand for ships an omen that the U.S.S.R. planned to buy more gram than would be necessary with a good harvest, but it lifted world freight rates by 15%,which should also have produced alarm. Finally, U.S. prices of wheat and corn took a slight upward tick from August through October, a rare happening at harvesttime, when prices are almost always depressed. The only explanation: large foreign purchases...
...slight crumpled figure against the grass. The fantasy had not changed that much--still that thirteen year old whiz center fielder, bong! lying out there and the crowd rising. Quite unoriginal...
Beckett's poems in French reflect this same style, with a few modifications geared to linguistic subtleties. In any case, if there is a slight stylistic difference, the effect does not diminish the most important thing--the poignant quality we know so well in Beckett's English works. The following poem and its translation were written between the years of 1937 and 1938 after Beckett had made his home in France...