Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kanazawa, Jiko-san flew the red "meatball" flag of Imperial Japan; to her followers she restated the basic State Shinto principles of hakko ichi-u-the whole world under Japan's Emperor. Jiko-san had included General Douglas MacArthur and Generalissimo Joseph Stalin in her cabinet of lesser deities...
Whether he can do as well Saturday night is something else again. Sparrow will be on hand. So will Sweden's Haakon Lidnan, Dillard (Baldwin Wallace), Nelson (NYU), Mitchell (Indiana), Alberghini (Northeastern), and a flock of lesser timber toppers. The 45-yard distance is short for Flint, who needs a lot of room in which to get rolling. He will have Dave Read as a running-mate...
There were scores of lesser fry in lesser posts and missions. Counting them up, the world could take note of a line in General Marshall's statement on China last week: "Though I speak as a soldier, I must here also deplore the influence of the military. Their dominance accentuates the weakness of civil government...
...amnesty would apply to low-income Germans "whose financial status conclusively shows that they have not profited from Nazi greed and ambition." Lesser Nazis who are more than 50% disabled would also be freed. Some two million Nazis not covered by the amnesty must still await trial...
...disturbers of the public peace. Magistrates and constables are often surprised to find vicious repeaters showing up as misguided, well-meaning little folk, but they read his column devotedly. He frequently gives judges, lawyers, police and wrongdoers the same indiscriminate, kindly treatment in mellow pieces that read like lesser Dickens with a shot of O. Henry. (Jones is tired of being compared to Dickens, insists that he has read only the Pickwick Papers, and that...