Word: lesser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antique gold watches, rare manuscripts, books and autographs, Victorian and Edwardian jewelry, and art deco furniture. It seems that nothing that can be collected is being neglected. Well, almost nothing. Among the few items that have not appreciably gained in value in recent years: Jacobean furniture and portraits by lesser English artists of the 18th and 19th centuries...
...while purists may condemn these less-than-earthshaking contests, the opportunist can find some damn good matchups in some of these so-called lesser bowls. And in the big ones...
...other hand, the Crimson stars had an easy day. Murphy and McNulty each ran only once, and the crack relay quartets were dissembled in favor of a hodge-podge of lesser runners. Only Dixon, who won the 600 and the 1000 and ran in the mile relay, had a full day's work; and he was not pressed in either of his victories...
...about as much as management seemed willing to grant the lesser dancers all together in raises. So bitter were feelings that the company canceled performances, while superstars like Gelsey Kirkland joined the picket line. Last week. Godunov complicated things by abruptly resigning from the A.B.T. before ever dancing a single pas because he had become an issue. Not so, insisted the dancers in a group note urging him to reconsider and requesting "the honor and privilege of being your friends." Balletomanes are awaiting the next act with understandable interest...
Even if some "pro-choice" advocates might concede that abortion is murder, many might argue that under some circumstances inflicting pain on one person in order to lessen the pain of others is the lesser of two evils. In particular, many people feel that the right to abortion is vital to the liberation of women from oppression and the liberation of men from the role of oppressors. But if the women's movement claims to be an alternative to the politics of power and violence, of the strong asserting themselves at the expense of the weak, then it must either...