Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yitzhak Rubin, 40, a middle-level Defense Ministry official, was sentenced to a two-year prison term for accepting bribes from businessmen dealing with the ministry. Four lesser employees received one-or two-year sentences on the same charges. Three of the bribe-givers were also convicted...
Homer to Hopper, at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, looks at the golden age of American watercolor (1870-1930). Included are the works of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Charle Demuth and some lesser-known painters. (Tuesday-Friday...
Because they have a local orientation, City Hall and to a lesser extent the state legislature have a more immediate impact on Boston residents than the senate or governorship. These local offices are the sources of patronage and favors that make life in Boston more pleasant--last year selective tree planting in East Boston was one of White's ways of rewarding supporters. This difference between statewide offices, where Republicans often win, and local ones, where they usually lose, justifies Representative Frank's comment on the Kearns Report, "If that is going to be Harvard's contribution to Boston politics...
Actually, the Woodstein of Koreagate is no stranger to Page One. Last year Cheshire won a wall full of journalism awards for her disclosures that Pat Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and lesser public figures had kept millions of dollars' worth of gifts from foreign governments, in violation of a 1966 statute. A few years earlier, Cheshire investigated the $1 million worth of antiques donated by wealthy Americans to help Jacqueline Kennedy refurbish the White House: to Jackie's embarrassment, a seven-article series listed the age, origin, donor and occasionally dubious value of each piece. That prying brought...
...seem likely to have been the Christmas star. True. Halley's comet, which was first seen in 240 B.C., reappeared in 12 B.C. But that was several years before the earliest date on which Jesus could have been born. In any case, neither Halley's nor any lesser comets that appeared in succeeding years would have been regarded as the bearers of tidings of great joy; to the sky watchers of that troubled time, comets were generally omens of evil...