Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Italian descent and speaks fluent Italian, had hopes that he would be received by Pope Paul VI. He had also intended to chat with President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale, negotiate with leaders of Italian industry and then receive lesser lights from the Holy See, the government and the financial community. None of it happened. The Pope did not grant an audience; the reason, a Vatican spokesman told Perón, was "because of interpretations that could be given such a meeting." President Leone, who had enough free time to preside over a reception for film stars (including Richard Burton...
...poor Americans that their concerns are high in our priorities." For the past few years, however, the Democratic Party has been drifting away from its moorings among blue-collar workers; Mc-Govern's candidacy simply speeded up the flight. The intellectuals who plan party strategy and the lesser lights who are supposed to carry it out have become mistrustful of each other. It will take skillful brokerage by party professionals to make peace between the two hostile camps if the Democrats want to continue thinking of themselves as the majority party...
...L.D.F. Attorney Jack Himmelstein insists that Sprague's study still does not show any rational distinction between those who do and do not get death. As for turning to mandatory execution, Himmelstein contends that it "would be administered just as arbitrarily." Prosecutors, he points out, could still bring lesser charges, juries could return lesser convictions and Governors would choose which sentences to commute. "We used to have mandatory capital punishment," Himmelstein notes. "The reason we turned to discretionary is that discretionary was in fact what was happening anyhow...
...Fogg's early acceptance of photography as an art procured for it the first National Endowment Grant for photography. Such foresight is evidenced further by Pratt's selectors for its exhibition. Top billing is given to lesser-established artists, although a few 20th century masters, such as Walker Evans, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus. Berenice Abbott and Minor White have adequate representation for comparison...
Married. George Hamilton, 33, star member of Hollywood's lesser leading-man set (The Power, Evel Knievel); and Alana Collins, 27, model; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...