Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...argument begins to get lost it also becomes offensive. He refers to "convenience abortions." If Pakaluk had ever experienced the procedure he would not use such glib language. Abortion is always the lesser of two evils for women, and not a small one on account of being less terrible than bearing an unwanted child...
...Commission trial is not expected to produce a turncoat as high ranking as Cleveland Underboss Angelo Lonardo, the top U.S. mobster to sing so far. He learned how to be a turncoat the hard way. Charged with leading a drug ring, Lonardo was convicted after a lesser hood, Carmen Zagaria, testified about the inner workings of the Cleveland Mob. Zagaria described how the bodies of hit victims were chopped up and tossed into Lake Erie. Lonardo, who wanted to avoid a life sentence, then helped prosecutors break the Las Vegas skimming case...
Oddly enough, petty crime on the streets of Palermo has increased since a surprise sweep two years ago rounded up 53 of the prisoners now on trial. Investigators believe that with so many of the big bosses in jail, the lesser lights, with no other source of employment or income, have turned to purse snatching for pocket money...
...that is what has happened. The fame of its subject and, to a lesser extent, its writer practically guarantees best-sellerdom, but Eisenhower: At War 1943-1945 hardly qualifies as a popularized book. Those seeking scandals or secrets will be disappointed. Author Eisenhower notes, for example, rumors of a wartime affair between Ike and his chauffeur-secretary Kay Summersby. The matter is then quickly dropped: "Eisenhower was under tremendous pressures and in need of company. Beyond this, the truth was known only by them, and both are gone." Instead of titillating, David is interested in seeing the war through...
Ironically, the very success of the Czech tennis program has brought the country a continuing headache: emigration. Since the Communists took power, 14 top Czechoslovaks besides Navratilova have defected to the West, along with dozens of lesser talents. Lendl, though nominally still playing for his native land, has not returned home since 1980, and now refuses to play in team competitions. Those who do stay face the problem of conformity. "The system is fine for ordinary players," says the unconventional base-line worker Srejber, who rose from 120 to 32 in less than a year. "But it doesn't adapt...