Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home Base. The Prime Minister had soared over the heads of lesser politicians, had struck a responsive chord in the mass heart of Britain. Most Britons reacted sentimentally; few stopped to analyze the things that Churchill did not say. But, in the British press, the few dissents were to the point. Said the Manchester Guardian: "The four-year plan [for domestic economy after the war] does not amount to more than what the Government is already pledged to in the way of reconstruction." Growled the London News Chronicle: "There was not one reference to the Atlantic Charter, nothing about...
Obscurely, almost as if its diminished pulse responded to a more rapid pulse within the earth, the life of Nanty Glo began to quicken. Women appeared at the doors of the almost identical, bleak, boxlike houses that line the town, the lesser wooden shacks; children and dogs ventured into the rain. At the entrance to the tunnel of the Heisley mine, the thick steel cable which miners call "the rope" began to move. After five minutes, scores of coal cars filled with miners came from beneath the earth, black as the coal they mined, only the whites of their eyes...
...tape is unnecessary. In fact, "hey, you!" is a term applied far more often to what were once known as Yardlings, stencil or no stencil, than it is to anonymous Sophomores who are roaming around. There is nothing come if faut for Place and Arnold. They direct all the lesser lights around, and care for such things as trips (most difficult item on any manager's agenda) and tickets. Dave, of course, didn't have to worry about publicity for the team--people seem to like to read about football--but the vast amount of bookkeeping, and the problems...
Said the Times: "There can be no security in western Europe unless there is also security in eastern Europe, and security in eastern Europe is unattainable unless it is buttressed by the military power of Russia. . . . To suppose that Britain and the U.S. with the aid of some lesser European powers could maintain permanent security in Europe through a policy which alienated Russia and induced her to disinterest herself in Continental affairs would be sheer madness." This conception was a slap at the reported desire of the Vatican and of some circles in Washington to establish a buffer of anti...
That year was enough to change any man, and to destroy a lesser one. Uncertain and divided authority in Australia, the slow flow of men and weapons to his command, his acute sense of hostility in Washington made his first months a period of agonized frustration. His defense of Bataan had enshrined MacArthur as a hero to the U.S. people, but not to the U.S. High Command...