Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bailing kids out of jail to helping faithful Daley followers find city jobs to assuring that garbage pickups and street repairs are made. On election day, the precinct captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked off against neighborhood lists those people who showed up at the polls. By midafternoon, if a "safe" voter had not shown up, a runner was dispatched to bring him in before closing time...
Martin holds an orthodox Catholic view of spiritual history: God and his fallen angel Satan are engaged in a struggle for the souls of men. One of Satan's tools, through lesser spirits, is the possession of humans. And so Martin provides us with the case histories of five possessed Americans and details their successful exorcisms...
...system, 88% complete, brings most of the remoter regions to within an hour or two's drive of a city. Jet planes and a growing number of airports provide similar ease of access to he outside world. Television pipes its news and entertainment into the countryside. Along with lesser fare, Live from Lincoln Center can now be seen across the country without going to New York and paying the price (up to $25) of a ticket Universities have opened branches and hundreds of two-year community colleges have sprung up in small towns, injecting a new cultural life...
Major illnesses have profoundly affected the presidency. The classic case in modern times concerns Franklin Roosevelt; he was too sick to run for a fourth term, and history would be different if he had not done so. But lesser afflictions have their effects too, though they are harder to detect...
...proposal which would provide full breakfasts at only five Houses and breakfasts of toast, milk, juice, and cereal at the other eight, would save approximately $11 of student fees in 1976 and $18 the year after that. Gross said the savings would be reflected as a "lesser increase" in board fees next year...