Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amiable, easygoing 84th Congress enacted more than 800 public laws-many of them minor, but in their sum total making a record that both Democrats and Republicans would find useful during the coming campaign...
...Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor Biggs employed at least four different phrasings for the same fugue subject. The Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation is such a wandering piece that it is no wonder that Biggs lost his place. Perhaps his best playing of the evening came in the Schumann Canon in B Minor, where his crisp short attacks were appropriate...
...other side of the Capitol, the Senate moved steadily toward adjournment, whooping through 134 bills (nearly all of them minor) in one two-hour period. The Senate's big items concerned two politically loaded pieces of legislation. On one, the proposal for a federal dam in Hell's Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border, the Democratic leadership took a whipping from the Administration. On the other, social-security expansion, the Democrats passed an Administration-opposed bill that will be useful this fall. In all, the tortoise was doing nicely...
...days, Gary Neil and Larry Dale Hutchens went under the knife. In mid-operation the surgeons found, as they had feared, that the tissues tying the twins together included part of their spinal canals and two sensory nerves. They made the separation anyway, confident that the severed nerves were minor ones and gratified that little blood or spinal fluid was lost in the operation. At week's end Gary and Larry were doing fine in separate cribs and the doctors gave them a good chance to live normal lives...
...want to kneel in heaven's left field with minor league prophets and all. I'm running this race for a major league place