Word: minor
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...has become shorthand for 1950s naiveté. But as you can see over 39 episodes (TV seasons, like airline legroom, were more generous then), its picture of child-hood could be tart as well as sweet. When Beaver (Jerry Mathers) is worried that his teacher will hit him over a minor mess-up, Wally (Tony Dow) corrects him: "Only the coach can hit you." Beaver was never edgy, but it packed its own good-natured punch...
...There was absolutely no resistance from anyone,” he said. “Did we achieve a hundred percent compliance? No. But this is not something that’s going to happen overnight.” Patten said any disobedience the officers did encounter was minor. “People are going to test limits a little bit,” he said. “If we had not gone around and talked to people, maybe they would’ve stayed.” There were only two physical injuries at The Game, neither...
...hold early elections, but the ploy boomeranged when the Socialists emerged as victors. But thanks to his prodigious vitality, shrewd maneuvering and quick mind, Chirac always managed to recover from even his worst blunders. Not this time. Now, both his talents and his luck have run out. The "minor cerebrovascular accident" he suffered several months ago was a telling reminder that next week he turns 73. He recovered well, but for a man who has always looked 10 years younger than he actually is, the strain has been showing. He appeared on television last week in a somber mood, wearing...
Harvard suffered a few minor preseason injuries to its small forwards, leaving the squad without a natural three during practice time. McCaffery, who up to then had played in the power forward spot every practice, stepped in without pause and picked up the slack at small forward...
...three-pointers and finished with nine points. Her season, and her budding career, soon went sour. Against Yale, she dislocated her shoulder, the first of four such instances that would ruin her freshman and sophomore years. It was the first time she had been sidelined by even a minor injury.“Four dislocations in two years really, really changed her game,” Delaney-Smith says. “She was playing with one arm, she was playing in pain and she was playing in fear because her shoulder kept coming out all the time...