Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy communiques announcing the raid made it clear that not only aircraft carriers, but also battleships participated in the attack. Although described as a "surprise raid," the surprise was evidently not entirely complete because some defending planes were able to take to the air-two U.S. ships received minor damage from near bomb hits and eleven U.S. planes were lost...
Mayor Rossi and the heads of city departments ran the show, used the city's 66,245 volunteers only in minor jobs. Blackouts were almost perfect. Mr. Rossi, who sells flowers on the side, doused his shop's electric sign, which had been left to glisten through a previous blackout. Sirens, at first inaudible above the traffic, were more ear-piercing. San Franciscans had sand in their homes, were ready to fight incendiaries...
...found with the picture, it is its continual telegraphing of punches. You're pretty sure of what's going to happen before it ever happens. In most movies, this would prove a fatal error. In "All That Money Can Buy" it's simply a minor flaw in an otherwise irreproachable and praiseworthy film. Hollywood can still make good pictures. And ones like this almost make up for most of the bad ones...
...British lion, awkward of late, last fortnight clumped his way into a minor diplomatic mess. Until recently the British Government forbade the playing of the Russian anthem, the Internationale...
...great honor," mumbled Immortal No. 27, receiving the news in a barber's chair at Fort Worth, where he now manages a minor-league ball club. But Rogers Hornsby might well have pondered the caprices of his career. For the very traits that made the Rajah a spectacular player lost him job after job as manager. Aggressive, independent, intolerant of advice, he made no effort to endear himself to his employers...