Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write off this offensive as a minor island hop. This push can reverse the status of the opposing forces in the Pacific war. We have been fighting a war of defense, irritating the Japs into attacking Guadalcanal, where we slaughtered their planes with clouds of fighters hopping off handy airfields. That was war of attrition. It was defensive, and it was not moving towards Tokyo...
...Voice. In these six years of trial and endurance, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, more than any other man, has grown in stature as the symbol of a nation. Many a Chinese finds fault with the social and political views of this strong, indomitable leader who rose from China's minor gentry to direct 450,000,000 people. But none fails to see him as the chief artisan of resistance and final victory over Japan, of equality at the table of the nations...
Swart, handsome, curly-haired Gene Krupa, drumming idol of swarms of jitterbugs, paled as a San Francisco jury found him guilty of using a minor (his 20-year-old valet) to transport marijuana cigarets. He had claimed that he was handed an envelope by a stranger, did not know what was in it. As his lawyer prepared to appeal, Krupa prepared to face the music, one to six years in San Quentin...
...singer, Lillian Russell might have cut a minor swath at the Metropolitan. Trained in opera from infancy, she claimed to be able to negotiate high Cs eight times a performance, seven performances a week. But when Nellie Melba told Lillian to stick to the music halls, where her reign was absolute, she took the advice...
License Plates to Wing Ribs. Two years ago Billy began brooding over two wasteful facts about aluminum production: 1) about 20% of his sheet was regularly rejected because of minor blemishes that, when cropped, left the sheet less than standard size; 2) at least 30% of the approved sheet became scrap when parts were cut out of it at an aircraft factory. Then as much as nine months (plus hundreds of scarce freight cars) are needed to get the scrap back to an aluminum mill, remelted, rerolled and ready to be cut up again...