Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last year civilians bought an average of 3.4 pairs, an alltime record. Thus "average" citizens, especially men, will find the new rationing order a minor inconvenience. Chief sufferers: women in upper-income groups, who are the shoemakers' best customers'; women in low-income groups, who buy cheap shoes and have to replace them frequently...
Backed into their corner of North Africa, Axis troops hacked and jabbed at Allied armies which were slowly, slowly closing in. The action was "minor," but it flared along the whole 500-mile front. Small opposing forces fought for position, struggled bitterly for mountain passes, railroad stations, strategic heights...
After the Rennell Island action, the Tokyo radio said: "It is plain that the U.S. can never regain her sea strength." At week's end Secretary Knox said that U.S. losses had been "minor in everything . . . moderate . . . nothing significant." Apparently no battleship was lost, and probably not much in the way of cruisers or destroyers. Even the Tokyo radio changed its tune: it said that the U.S. had ten battleships, ten aircraft carriers and 20 heavy cruisers in the Solomons area, that the Japanese fleet was "numerically inferior...
...move on Japan over her soil-at least until after the defeat of Hitler. To the west, the mass of China could well base hostile air and land forces, but China is of limited use to Japan's enemies until they own Burma, and the stalemated minor campaign there indicates that that is not now a danger. To the south there lies a great arc of air and naval bases, one sector of which is threatened at the Solomons...
...exercised the greatest influence on him. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Bartok has no fixed rules for writing, employing whatever means best suit his purpose at the given moment. He has used everything from Greek, Oriental and pentatonic scales and the modes of the middle ages to the conventional minor and major scales. He avoids neither consonance nor dissonance; he may or may not have symmetry in his rhythms; he will use the simple as well as the complex. If generalizations must be made, it can be said that Bartok's music is usually unemotional, and impersonal, rarely sensational, leaning...