Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted regional power authorities established all over the country, to furnish cheap power to U.S. citizens and U.S. industry-and he wanted fiercely to keep the control of those authorities out of Washington. His TVA was the model. Under the setup he devised, TVA has only ten very minor employes in Washington. The rest of the 18,000, including TV Administrator David Lilienthal, live and work in communities they serve. Norris feared that all this would be undone by Harold Ickes; that the now-broken system of absentee (Wall Street) ownership of the utilities would be converted into absentee (Federal...
...actor who, to satisfy his wife's yearning for amorous adventure and to satisfy himself that she is faithful to him, dresses up in the uniform of a guardsman and tries, hoping he will fail, to cuckold himself. The demands of this ticklish situation (used by M.G.M. with minor changes) are simply beyond the histrionic capacities of the picture's two principals: wholesome, husky Risöe (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, young (28) Metropolitan Opera demidiva, and dimpled, impassive Nelson Eddy, 40, who looks like a Midwest swimming coach...
Landis declared that the extension of Germany's lines of communication into the Caucasus and Asia Minor will lead to her ultimate collapse, as soon as English-Russian pressure is brought to bear at that point. He was emphatic in his belief that American material aid in planes and armaments will prove to be a decisive factor in this struggle, when it occurs...
...proof of the pudding is in the Sheffe" spluttered Hu Flung, Corzine a minor upset as he took a High dive Stark naked onto a Davenport...
Literally hundreds of aspiring journalists have stowed their typewriters aboard the Pan American clippers and hurried south to help feed America's latest fad, Good Neighborliness. With English-Spanish dictionaries in one hand and the coattails of some minor official in the other, these writers have garnered material for thousands of "fresh from the pampas" articles and books. Director of the Committee on Cultural Relations with South America for fifteen years, Hubert Herring is not one of these new-found-friends of the South...