Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great stacks of foreign currency: $2,000,000 U.S.; 110,000 British pounds, 4,000,000 Norwegian crowns; 1,000,000 French francs; lesser amounts of Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish money...
George Patton, General, is a dazzling mixture. The oldest field commander of any Allied army in Europe (he will be 60 next Armistice Day), Patton is still tigerish in action. On the field he shouts orders in a high-pitched voice. He can rawhide a private or a lesser general with a flow of profanity that is perhaps the richest in all the hard-swearing U.S. armies. A moment later he can be gently lifting a wounded man from a tank, calming him with soothing words...
...gadgets, toys, puzzles in mathematics; by day he would take a daily walk of 20 miles at top speed. At best, he would find release from "the sin of thinking for himself about religion" by turning his worries into innocent literary fantasies - such as the remarkable passage from his lesser-known children's book, Sylvie and Bruno...
...sudden flood of Army orders also washed all the complacency out of other metal markets. Tin, zinc and lead were all back on the critical-shortage list (along with lesser items like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even...
...Desmond Powell's remembrance of a desert journey with the late Thomas Wolfe: "For one week I saw [him] consume a large steak each morning for breakfast, while lesser men sat around and ate crunchies and tweeties. ... He could recall the smell of a particular apple tree, the feel of a particular door...