Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last year, there was actually a slight increase in the number of applications, Kraus said...
When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
Some surgeons contend that there is a possibility, admittedly slight, that the radiation itself could cause future cancer. They argue, as the British Medical Journal recently said, that "cure is more important than contour." Yet Pierquin insists that for certain women between the ages of 40 and 50, there are particularly important aesthetic and psychological reasons for choosing radiation implants. As he explains it: "This is when the woman knows she is growing older and starting to lose her femininity, her power for seduction. The fact that she might undergo mutilation at this stage can be a catastrophe...
...many places around the U.S., the Mary Tyler Moore Show changed the nature of Saturday nights; it even became fashionable to spend them at home. The show turned the situation comedy into something like an art form-a slight art form perhaps, but a highly polished one. MTM was the sitcom that was intellectually respectable. The writing, acting and directing on MTM have been the best ever displayed in TV comedy. Owing much to Moore, who always set a tone of perfectionism, the show has been technically superb and beautifully paced. Former CBS Executive James Aubrey used...
...restricting the money supply. Healey, in fact, has already said as much, arguing that "wages can only rise above the level permitted by the supply of money at the cost of throwing people out of work." Or as Callaghan has put it, "The choice this year is a slight decrease in our living standard or a large increase in unemployment." Unfortunately, there is little sign that workers are getting the message...