Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade, Roosevelt and his advisers came to realize that they were dealing with a political system that was not only deeply repugnant to Western values but virtually impervious to Western attempts to change it. Nevertheless, compared with Nazi Germany, "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia seemed by far the lesser of two evils. "I can't take Communism, nor can you," said Roosevelt to Ambassador Joseph Davies in 1941. "But to cross this bridge [i.e., beat Hitler], I would hold hands with the devil...
Earlier this week, Benson dropped this controversial defense, in exchange for a guilty plea on the lesser charge of harassment. "I have long argued that there is no basis for the use of this defense," crowed Brooklyn District Attorney Elizabeth Holtzman, the prosecutor in the case. "The withdrawal of this defense is a signal that PMS is a defense without merit...
...Wilson to justice. When he believed that had been accomplished, he was lost." Assistant U.S. Attorney E. Lawrence Barcella Jr., who is prosecuting the Wilson case, insists that "Mulcahy's death is not going to affect at all our ability to go forward." (Oddly, last spring a lesser prosecution witness disappeared near the Bahamas after his fishing boat exploded. An FBI probe declared the sinking an accident.) Nearly five years ago, when Mulcahy was the only witness the Government had, he was an ambivalent informer. "I'm not going to go to court," he told a federal prosecutor...
That situation characterizes this year's races for so-called "lesser constitutional" state offices. The contestants have been plodding along without most voters knowing who is running--let alone what duties the candidates are vying...
Elkin, who suffers from a form of multiple sclerosis, has not received the recognition or income of lesser colleagues, desipite his overflow of talent and energy. So it is not difficult to see Glazer's trials and Messenger's messages as a form of special pleading. Fortunately, these episodes are not the whole story, merely parts of an epic that embraces 1,000 years of second-string citizenship. The novel's heroes are all named George Mills, from the Greatest Grandfather, an 11th century Northumbrian stableboy, to a furniture mover in East St. Louis...