Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doctors have already discovered many minor troubles in which penicillin can be useful. Among them...
While awaiting trial last week on the relatively minor charge of a $400 false claim for stolen jewelry, Courtney Rogers maintained the immense glacial calm which has baffled sheriffs, infuriated prosecutors, prompted reporters to call him the "human icicle" and caused six psychiatrists to split 3 to 3 on his sanity. To any one who would listen, he continued to give patronizing lectures on astrology, Buddhism, grammar, physiology, Bach, palmistry, contract bridge...
...minor episode in French politics was big news for Europe last week: for the first time General Charles de Gaulle and the French Communist Party clashed openly. Strengthened by recognition, the French Government decreed that the Communist-led Patriotic Militia (Milice Patriotique) must surrender its arms. The Patriotic Militia is a group of irregular home guards not connected with the F.F.I. A small group before liberation, the militia has grown rapidly since then...
...play's faults-an overextended first act, an undernourished last one, some rubbishy minor characters, some razzle-dazzle farce-are pretty well buried underneath its fun. Underneath it, too, lies the hint given by many humorists that wackiness may be the last word in wisdom. Harvey, says Elwood, is greater than Einstein-Einstein did away with time & space, but Harvey does away with time, space-and objections...
...wife and son, $7,000 which he invested in war bonds. Twice he saved Martin and Morris from being sent overseas by having them temporarily transferred to his own unit. In January, Radovich himself went overseas (though he had to persuade his commanding officer to overlook a minor leg injury) and played a hero's role in the CBI until his conscience overtook...