Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the cloud of censorship, the reassurances of British officialdom, the casual gibes of high hearted correspondents and the absurdity of German propaganda claims, the robot bomb attack on southern England showed plain signs that it might grow from a major nuisance into a minor menace...
...also, am very grateful to TIME for its coverage and evaluation of news. We who are so often too close to the drudgery, the incompetency, the inhumanity and uncharitableness of war too easily overlook the significance and sweep of affairs in which we play parts, though they be very minor ones. TIME illumines the too shaded areas...
...urgent need for this block was clear: Rommel lost no time in making tactical counterattacks with his 21st Panzers. Around Caen the first tank battles of the invasion were fought. But they were preliminary, minor skirmishes compared with what was to be expected when Rommel finally struck...
...Star-Spangled Banner . . . this ponderous piece . . . was written in celebration of a minor engagement in an inconsequential war-and a war, moreover, against our present allies, the British. From the looks of things, we are going to be fighting on the British side in future wars-far oftener, at any rate, than on the anti-British side. Surely we ought to be able to round up a song which better voices the 20th-century mood of the American people...
...weren't on the hay-ride! That was your mistake . . . hereafter follow your Social Committee's advice. Sixty couples made the trip to Norumbega Park and had a great time, despite such minor (?) inconveniences as cool weather, hayless wagons, and a lack of muleskinners on the return trip. If you didn't attend, you missed: Al Bizal, he of the mispronounceable name, making his Boston debut and being received with open arms by the girls from Endicott. Ed Clark, sitting comfortably in one corner of the wagon with a happy smile on his face, shouting, "Neckst." Dave Clevenger, discouraged over...