Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Austerity Board. Merely keeping house had become vastly difficult. One of every three houses had been destroyed or damaged by bombs; only the most urgent of minor repairs could be made, little furniture could be replaced. The "austerity" table had only one-third as much butter as in 1939, two-thirds as much meat, less than half as many eggs, less than half as much fresh fruit...
...being at that time synonymous, the two principal epics of the ancient world were put together and attributed to a poet called Homer. Both poems related adventures incidental to a ten years' war that had been fought by the chivalry from the Peloponnesus against the chivalry of Asia Minor at a walled town, Troy, near the entrance to the Dardanelles. The Odyssey told of the wanderings of the Greek soldier, Odysseus, on his way home to the island of Ithaca (now Corfu); the Iliad told of the wrath of Achilles and what came of it at the siege...
...Stettinius era in U.S. Steel was a revolutionary period, although Stettinius himself played only a minor part in the revolution. One of his main contributions was to substitute stainless-steel streamlining for the gas-jetted, Victorian corridors of the U.S. Steel headquarters at 71 Broadway. But Little Stet surprised oldtimers when he fought off a 1938 proposal that U.S. Steel cut wages to offset a drop in the price of steel. In a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt digressed to congratulate Big Steel on its "statesmanship." And Harry Hopkins, in his steady progress in U.S. society, had met and liked...
...accustomed as I have been in civilian life to reading at least two papers daily, to be stuck in the South Pacific with no news other than the sketchy headline flashes of the radio is a minor calamity...
...boredom." The most trying period was "the latter half of the first 25 performances. Then I got my second wind." Newman learned to sleep open-eyed, but the slightest deviation from the script would wake him up "with a jerk." Slight differences in intonation or timing came to be "minor events." When Newman occasionally slipped out for a breath of air, "the actors who resented my continuous presence most . . . objected to my temporary absence even more." The acting, Newman found, was highly intermittent. He noted many missed cues and cases of "drying up," found that five times in six weeks...