Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same week that the powerful steel and cement industries bowed to the Federal Trade Commission (see above), two lesser adversaries gave the agency an old-fashioned nose-thumbing...
...confused with the tufted dowager, red-eyed crosspatch, all-night thrasher, ruffled spouse, great stench, lesser stench, or double-breasted seersucker...
This month U.S. churches were crowded-for weddings. But some June brides might drop their bouquets with shock to hear that the early Christian Fathers regarded marriage as the lesser of two evils...
...deep love of America." He admits that the businessman's energy, skill and audacious vitality are (like the qualities of the best U.S. newsmen) "unsurpassed." He even concedes that the big businessman's faith in free enterprise is shared by such a large number of lesser U.S. citizens that labor has not even been able to build a political party worth the name. Therefore a successful anti-capitalist revolt is impossible unless the U.S. businessman is willing to lend a hand in arranging his own execution...
This newspaper will not take sides in the November elections until later. There certainly can be no doubt, however, that every American who cares about the outcome of the current international crisis should approach public issues clearly searching for the oft-criticized "lesser of evils"--if that is the sorry state of American politics at this point. In Illinois, for example, there is no question that democratic-minded voters should unite to support Professor Paul Douglas against Wayland "Curly" Brooks, who cast one of the House Committee's votes in favor of slashing the ERP appropriation; the third party should...