Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people talked any longer of a threat of depression; the relatively minor damage done by the spring recession seemed to have reassured most of the doubters. The sight of smoking factory stacks and the feel of cash in the weekly pay envelope had been habit forming; rightly or wrongly, millions seemed to feel that there was such a thing as looking too hard for a worm in the apple...
...minor Liberal politicians died where they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...
...opening address, Attorney Cross indicated that a minor witness in the first trial might play a major role in this one. Cross declared that he would prove that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...
...jungle caution to stay rich-rich, alive and free as air-while Al Capone went raving to his grave, while bullets cut down Dutch Schultz and Dion O'Banion, while Lepke Buchalter burned in the electric chair, while Lucky Luciano went off to exile and a hundred minor hoodlums rotted in prison...
Toccata in D major Frescobaldi Symphony No. 3 Schubert Concerto Grosso in D minor Vivaldi An Outdoor Overture Copland...