Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers complaining about such matters as the size of bicycles ("I am 4 ft. 10 in. tall, and I've been waiting for a suitably sized bicycle for years"), and leaky fountain pens exported to Russia ("The consequences could be bad''). Occasionally, someone will attack a minor partyman. Item: an 'official named Kuo Pei-cheng was accused of keeping a 14-year-old girl up until midnight "so that he could help her with her own private five-year plan...
...general, Dwight Eisenhower's spring offensive had rolled through Congress with remarkable success; foreign aid authorization, tax bills, even reciprocal trade and defense reorganization were in remarkably good shape. But last week, in a minor skirmish, Ike got sandbagged into an embarrassing retreat by three Algerian-general types who are supposed to be on his side: Minority Leader William Knowland. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Illinois' Everett McKinley ("Old Bear Grease") Dirksen...
...Greeks moved deep into the Persian Empire (see map) when Cyros, the Persian governor of Asia Minor, hired 12,900 of them to help overthrow his brother. King Artaxerxes. They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon. After Cyros was killed by a javelin, his native troops fled the field, leaving the Greeks surrounded. To make matters worse, the Persians slew the Greek commanders by treachery...
Greeted in Britain by the brassiest of literary fanfares, this volume by a minor English poet performs the complicated parlor trick of 1) confessing to a slew of sleazy sins, 2) confessing to be confessing "to worm my way into the graces ... of society," 3) confessing that all the confessing is too mixed up with the drama of "self-presentation" to be deemed "true" confession. The book is an account of how Author O'Connor developed out of precocious childhood into a state of adult infantilism bordering on lunacy...
...from Eliot that one dates the beginning of modern education at Harvard, although there had been many innovations in educational techniques prior to his time. Many of those changes, however, were minor and were undertaken primarily to meet the needs of a steadily increasing enrollment...