Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commissar of heavy industry. One day in 1936, during what Russians now call the Ezhovshchina (the purge which carried off some 7,000,000 Russians to Siberian prison camps and mass graves), Ordzhonikidze learned that his precious engineers were being arrested. Victor (1 Chose Freedom) Kravchenko, a minor executive of the Commissariat, later told of Ordzhoni-kidze's telephone call to Stalin...
...objective: to win sufficient popular support to carry the next general election and set up a legitimate Communist government. Lee's ruthless attack has at last aroused some spirit of resistance among the Labor liberals. Last week, in a confidence vote on a minor budget issue, Marshall defeated the crypto-Communists...
last summer. Douglas' glowing introduction of the record (Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat Minor, RCA Victor): "Here indeed is a great pianist, probably the world's greatest. His piano always sings at his touch. Mr. Gilels comes here not as a Soviet representative but as an artist ... as a symbol of the world's artistic unity." Thanksgiving morning was purely routine in the mansion of Washington's Hostess-with the-Mostes' Perle Mesta, until her curious houseboy spotted a strange pushbutton in the kitchen, touched it. Soon, in answer to the robbery...
Sanitary engineers will begin "some sort of an investigation" today to determine the cause of a minor epidemic of intestinal disturbance, Dr. John C. Wells, Jr., Assistant Physician at the Hygiene Department, revealed yesterday...
...Wells termed the ailment "a minor outbreak of a non-specific type of gastroenteritis, presumably the result of something the students ate. No one's very sick," he added...