Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 5,000 years later, a lesser eruption produced a 3,000-foot "pup volcano" which now projects from Crater Lake, forming Wizard Island. If another active period is beginning, it may raise another pup. But a full-size volcano is unlikely...
Every Life, Everywhere. President Truman, restating U.S. foreign policy (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), spoke directly to Americans who have freedom and want a secure peace. Indirectly, he also spoke to Britain, wartime ally and uneasy peacetime junior partner; to lesser allies who look to the U.S. for leadership; to people everywhere who want freedom; and to the Russians...
From the viewpoint of lesser nations who had to put their whole trust in collective security, the Big Two were dangerous not because their foreign policies were so different, but because they were so much alike. And they were alike because each of the Big Two, atomic bomb or no, trusted more in its own ability to defend itself than in collective action...
...generally true, as Joseph Kramer, Irma Grese and their lesser co-defendants said, that they had obeyed orders ("Anyone in the SS is as guilty as anyone else"). A corollary truth, hard for the occupiers to grasp, was that the basic crime-Naziism-was not an individual but a national crime. Since this was so, the German people could never really be convinced that the national crimes of Naziism were crimes...
...began to ask for it in every bar in southern France, the words were translated to English, the title was changed to Symphonic. By last week it was the No. 1 song hit of France. At Maxim's in Cannes, Yolande, the French Hildegarde, sang it. So did lesser entertainers from Monte Carlo to Marseilles...