Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hong Kong, its banks and godowns, was founded for "the China trade." But in the first eight months of last year, imports from Red China represented 23% of Hong Kong's imports, and exports to China represented a relatively minor 8% of all the colony's exports. This abrupt decline began with the trade embargo during the Korean war, promoted by the U.S. and accepted by a reluctant Britain and a reluctant Hong Kong. But the decline also reflects Red China's own increasing reliance on overland trade with Soviet Russia and the satellites...
...grand alliance was indeed crumbling, specifically, that the Russians would sanction no form of democratic government for Poland. "Every argument ... I advanced was brushed aside," Harriman reported. "Aside from the major questions which are causing concern in our relations with the Soviet Union, there has been an accumulation of minor incidents . . . Little or no progress has been made in getting Soviet approval for our air teams to visit Soviet-controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage, or for our naval team to [inspect the port of] Gdynia. Both proposals were agreed to at Yalta." And so on, around the world...
...orchestration is more mystical and ornate, the form more vagrant and diffuse. Though pivoting on a strike and an O'Casey-like young idealist (Kevin McCarthy) who is killed in it, the events, far from displaying any clear dramatic line, are never really dramatized at all. Garrulous minor characters outshine those involved in action, Dublin overshadows individual Dubliners, speech passes into song, movement into ballet. The tone, reflected in Howard Bay's graphic sets, is now harshly, now religiously lyrical...
...situation bodes ill for the future. Already cross country and wrestling have submitted petitions seeking major sports status. In addition, there are eight other minor sports which may soon be clamoring for major recognition. What will the Council do when it has 19 sports and only 12 color combinations...
What makes the situation even more ridiculous is that many athletes either refuse to wear their letter sweaters around school or insist on wearing them inside out, with the letter obscured. Then, when they get home, many sport even a minor letter proudly, and attempt to create the impression that they have won it in a different sport. All of which leads one to conclude that letter distinctions are somewhat superfluous...