Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acknowledge that Jimmy Hoffa does have some minor virtues, but what about his major virtues? He is a good, thoughtful, considerate, kind, devoted husband and family man, and that is enough to make him a hero in my eyes. The American home could be a firmer foundation for a healthy America if husbands and fathers would follow his example...
Chance to Break In. In Djakarta, Indonesia, Police Inspector M. Husin complained to the city government that Chinese convicted of minor offenses were paying substitutes high wages to serve their jail sentences for them...
...guitar. With bass and drum accompaniment, he played his own composition, Spanish Guitar Blues, went on to a hot-swinging number called Yoti Took Advantage of Me, and then pulled a 180° switch-two solo Bach gavottes, sedate Frescobaldi variations, Villa-Lobos' rolling Prelude in E Minor. At 33, Byrd is that rarity, a musician so versatile that he qualifies as one of the world's top classical and jazz guitarists...
...line of ultra small cars will be introduced by British Motor Corp. in the U.S. within six months to a year. Engines will be mounted crosswise to save space, and the cars will have front-wheel drive, no rear axle. Dubbed the Austin Seven and the Morris Mini-Minor, they will have 36-h.p., four-cylinder engines (top speed: 70 m.p.h.), run 45 miles on a gallon of gas. U.S. price: about...
Ikhnaton never entered a temple of Amon again. Turning against the priests, he withdrew their profitable monopoly in the Nubian gold fields and won powerful support by giving it to the army. With the help of a minor priest, he invented a sun-drenched theology based on the insignificant deity Aton, built a new city, Aketaten, and chiseled the name of Amon from every temple in the land...