Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...laden with supplies for Rommel. The lead planes were almost in position. Grant Parr of the New York Times "crouched in a niche just behind the forward cabin, leaning out over the open bomb bay." It was deathly cold, but he was too excited to notice. "With a slight jar our bombs fell away, seemingly far wide of their mark. Then momentum and wind drift whipped them in toward the transports like a fast curve breaking over the plate...
...Dartmouth's line were as good as its backs, there would be no contest at Soldiers Field tomorrow. But the Big Green has a forward wall of dubious calibre, slight experience, but capable of far better play...
...three holes in his regular lineup as a result of the injuries last Saturday to tailback Jack Comeford, center Jack Fisher, and running guard Sid Smith, and there may be another vacancy at the blocking back slot, since Swede Anderson missed practice yesterday as a result of a slight illness...
With Fisher out with a leg injury and his substitute, Dick Andersen, suffering from a slight illness, the pivot post is woefully undermanned, so the coaches surveyed closely the work of the centers who are still able-bodied. Soup Gardiner moved from third to second string, while Roxie Lawson and Ricky Woodruff came up from the Jayvees to the "A" and "C" outfits respectively...
...Axis sent about 250 bombers and fighters against Malta in renewed mass attacks but the British announced that damage was slight and that only one Spitfire fighter plane was lost. Raids on Malta, which sits athwart the Axis supply line to North Africa, usually precede large scale convey operations...