Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must be said that in Vienna U.S. and Red soldiers do not get along well together. Both sides display suspicion and belligerence. Minor altercations, especially at night when the Russians are quick on the trigger, have been frequent, considering the small number of Americans in the city. In addition to language difficulty, the Russians have a definite inferiority complex. Said one officer to a group of correspondents: "You cannot call us ignorant. After all, we captured Berlin and Vienna and we know how to find the best restaurant in town...
...women caught by the recurring minor explosions were burned and blackened, buffeted from wall to wall. Others, trapped behind buckled doors, suffered the hell of smoke and intense heat until firemen got to them. The injured were counted...
...Communist Political Association went into a special three-day convention, behind closed doors, in a midtown Manhattan clubhouse. At week's end, the 93 shirt-sleeved delegates, following their orders, had unceremoniously kicked Earl Browder off his throne, together with his two top henchmen, onetime Cartoonist Robert Minor and three-time Vice-Presidential candidate James W. Ford, a Negro...
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor (Robert Casadesus and the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). French music brilliantly played by the French pianist, but not by the American orchestra. Recording: good...
Last week, with supply still limited to backdoor lines from India, Chinese troops did the best they could, hacked cautiously at targets of opportunity. When Thai puppets suddenly deserted the Japanese, the Chinese seized the opportunity and dashed across the Indo-China frontier to take the minor port of Moncay on the Gulf of Tonkin. The capture of this position gave Chungking the hint of a corridor...