Word: minor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which work well, carrying it through a story line which parodies both Hawk's Rio Bravo and Ford's My Darling Clementine (Sheriff holds murderer despite efforts of murderer's family). One takes Burt Kennedy seriously; he wrote a series of Budd Boetticher-Randolph Scott films now recognized a minor masterpieces, and directed some excellent films including Welcome to Hard Times and The War Wagon. The complete lack of conflict in Sheriff makes it a little lightweight, but it's handsomely made, and a lot more clever than most new American films...
...Government." Patricia Saltonstall, a former Washington Star columnist and cousin of retired Senator Leverett Saltonstall, told the court that police had struck her in the face with a rifle barrel. She said she would seek an injunction against "Chicago's practice of subjecting women booked on even minor charges to repeated strippings and searching of the body...
...were even luckier to land Orr, who is the roughest, most reckless and best all-around hockey player to emerge in years. At age 12 he was considered the prize of the Canadian little leagues, and was already being wooed by Montreal. The Bruins moved in by subsidizing all minor-league play in Orr's home town of Parry Sound, Ont.-and refurbishing the Orr homestead to boot. By the time he was 18, Bobby was in the Boston training camp with a two-year contract for $65,000 in his pocket. His teammates initiated him by shaving...
...depletion allowance to avoid taxes almost entirely on an income before special deductions of $1,110,190. First, he deducted $41,141 for contributions, local taxes and medical expenses. Then he took off $185,468 for the direct costs of his exploration and drilling. Along with other minor deductions, that left him with a taxable income of $866,022, all but $3,980 of which escaped tax liability because of his 271% oil-and-gas depletion allowance of $862,042. He paid the Government $397-as much as the bill for an unmarried person with an income...
...necessary to savor his prose. But would it really help to know that Moreland, the intelligent musician who provides such a sparkling commentary on this world, was perhaps drawn from Composer Constant Lambert, or that the vastly comic Widmerpool was lovingly conjured from the fatuous figure of a minor Tory Cabinet Minister? It seems most unlikely...