Word: minored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshman Senator made only one minor bobble the first week. Trooping over to the House chamber for the President's State of the Union message, he and Illinois' Paul Douglas sat down by mistake in chairs reserved for Cabinet members. Ubiquitous Senate Secretary Les Biffle hustled over to set them straight...
...once started, the question now was: "Where did Hubert Humphrey go from here? He had made a smashing success in the minor leagues. How would he do in the majors? He well knew that freshmen Senators are to be seen and not heard, and for the present at least, he was going to play that...
...power. Now, with Franco's permission, he was back lecturing again. He had been told to stick to cultural subjects, but Ortega seemed to have other plans. He had chosen to lecture on Toynbee merely "to loosen up my fingers like a pianist." Toynbee was "a good minor subject, vast enough to be used as a pretext for ... my lifelong tendency toward social and political themes...
...latest book, Holes in the Sky, continues along the same pleasantly minor way. MacNeice's poems are bedded in the conviction that western man is living in a bad time and that he must make the most of each immediate moment. With this moderate epicureanism, he values most the pleasures of physical existence, the "daydream free from doubt" which is art, and an attitude of simple respect for fellow men. On such a tentative basis men can still live in the modern world...
...minor respiratory; i means that it was the first cold virus they isolated, suggests that there are others still unknown...