Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Protocol. As the 1948 campaign drew to its close, it was evident that it had induced a curious reaction. The most energetic efforts of two major and three minor candidates had apparently either soothed, dulled or completely anesthetized the electorate...
...most moral or circumspect area of the world: the divorce rate was still staggeringly high, marijuana-smoking was enjoying a minor and furtive popularity, and shiny new automobiles crashed at high speeds with noisy regularity. But nobody seized upon this as evidence that man was finding new freedoms. The trend in manners & morals was in the other direction. The U.S. people seemed to be looking for values they had dropped in their long and precipitous scramble toward larger horizons...
...villain in the piece was bureaucracy; minor officials of the two countries were involved in a prolonged haggle over wages and terms of employment. Meanwhile the braceros milled about in Juárez, restless, hungry and shelterless. Juárez' Mayor Carlos Villarreal pleaded for help. He got it-from an unexpected direction...
When he arrived from Russia, he was out to burn up the U.S. with his razzle-dazzle speed. In his debut with the New York Philharmonic, he raced through the Tchaikovsky B flat minor concerto so fast that gouty Sir Thomas Beecham would not even try to keep up with him. By 1935, in the heyday of his elegant pink period (when he indulged in pink striped shirts and red ties), Horowitz was playing more than 70 concerts a year, and grossing about $300,000. Then he folded, up, with appendicitis complicated by phlebitis...
Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Mischa Elman, violinist, Wolfgang Rosé, pianist; Victor, 6 sides). Both Menuhin and Szigeti have performed this more brilliantly. Recording: fair...