Word: slighted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caro Lloyd Strobell, 81, Illinois-born, graduate of Vassar College in 1881. Wife of a Manhattan schoolmaster, George Strobell, Mrs. Strobell had three ancestors in General Washington's Army. Slight Mrs. Strobell became a Socialist in 1898, was a pioneer in birth-control research, has no children...
...tain Government followed up its severance of relations by heaping Gallic recrimination upon the head of its late Entente partner. His voice knife-sharp with bitterness, the Foreign Minister charged: England had provided only slight military aid to France, thinking selfishly solely of the defense of the British Isles, and must therefore shoulder the blame for "the loss of the war"; France had mobilized 3,000,000 men, England only 200,000; the great strategic error of the campaign occurred when at England's insistence the French Army left its trenches to rush into the Lowlands to the fatal...
Fight fans saw a slight improvement on the first: a more aggressive Louis, less befuddled by his ring mate's antics; a more upright Godoy, less bent on self-preservation. For six rounds, iron-jawed, oak-legged Godoy, his left eye dripping blood from a first-round bombardment, stuck close to his adversary, withstood his short-range punches. But, in the seventh, he succumbed. In the eighth, Godoy was knocked down again for a count of eight, and a few seconds later, still charging crazily like a wounded bull, collapsed from exhaustion...
This plan (which four members of the Cabinet are now pondering, and expect to adopt with slight modifications) would meet economic force with force. Its big proposal: to buy up all South America's exportable surplus...
...haughtily announced Russia would treat with nothing less than an Ambassador. The British Government hurriedly raised Sir Stafford to that rank, replacing Ambassador Sir William Seeds, who had been in London "on leave" since January. Sir Stafford hastened on to Moscow from Athens, hoping Stalin would overlook one more slight...