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In such an attempt, there are bound to be points of disagreement, arguments that important subjects have been accorded short shrift, minor inaccuracies that will submit to later refinement.
But Serbs, suspicious of Tito's Croatian and Slovenian background, said he was giving them short shrift.
Some reviewers note that his personal life--if you can even say he had one--gets short shrift, and most say Frankel's time at the helm is not half as interesting as his flight from Germany in his childhood and his days as a young correspondent.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal gets short shrift; Social Security is "a kind of pyramid fraud, played on youth."
For instance, I have a very low tolerance for spelling errors and grammatical solecisms in letters of application from those soliciting work: job applicants who are too careless to correct the capitalization of california and the spelling Britian get short shrift, though I am more tolerant of those using presently for now .