Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the British pulled off their little raid last month (TIME, July 12), the Cretans thought their day had come, but at the request of the British they held their hand. They stolidly watched a minor engagement between the island troops and the raiders. They saw precious supplies go up in smoke as the British fired dumps. They gloated inwardly at the damage to airfields and roads. They knew what it meant in the end-more hostages shot at dusk and buried in a common grave at the edge of a village. But they had gone through that many times...
...well as play, and in his expressive mouth the inane words of a popular song often came in for very searching satirical treatment. In 1929, in collaboration with Guitarist Eddie Condon and a small but vital ensemble, he made one of the greatest jazz records of all time: The Minor Drag and Harlem Fuss...
When newspapers seize upon each insignificant or minor victory to belch blatant, optimistic headlines and then, conversely, relegate our own losses to squeamish type or the back pages, it is no wonder that we are overoptimistic. When Washington luminaries drop intangible statements or "in-the-know" hints about our military successes, but on the other hand hush our defeats ... it can plainly be seen that the burden of guilt rests squarely on the politicians' and publishers' shoulders. That is the main cause of this subconscious letdown in war production...
...have stable contacts with the local populations, he explained. In many towns Catholic priests dealt with AMGOT, in effect served as local officials. The treatment and recognition, if any, accorded to known antiFascists was not reported in last week's dispatches. In general, it was already clear that minor Fascists in Italy could take heart, that they would not necessarily be dispossessed or punished when the mainland is invaded...
Cotton-State Senators chortled. Headed by old (79) "Cotton Ed" Smith of South Carolina, they had fought a bitter minor battle. The War Department had plumped for the use of rayon cord in synthetic tires in place of cotton. The politicos, ever-sensitive in their cotton fibers, worried about the South's loss of a good chunk of its domestic cotton market. Then, last week, the Senate's Truman Committee mightily boosted the cause of cotton cord...