Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knesset (Parliament). First indication of trouble to Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai (Labor) Party was the refusal of popular ex-Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish Waiters' Union (who boasts that in 1906 in Warsaw he led the world's first successful strike against tipping...
...important only if it essays to be important. If it adopts the manners and philosophy and outlook of a minor expression, then a minor expression it will be. If it aspires to an esthetic of doubletalk, just that will be its position, nothing more, and life itself will walk around it and let it alone...
...Christmas and Easter vacations on the continent with Stan Miles, now senior tutor at Dunster, the first in Italy and the second in Spain. "It was really comic opera in Spain. There were four of us--all over six feet--and our luggage, all loaded in Stan's Morris Minor. The unloading process resembled a circus act, and occasionally small crowed gathered to watch...
...team has also been quite fortunate in the matter of injuries, with no major and only a few minor ones. A little difficulty arose because of sickness, primarily the flu; but the effect of this was minimized by the great depth...
...lady is a Lady, and no less if "she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair." Moreover, a fashionable young man of the Wildean haut monde would never dream of endangering the seat of his immaculate trousers by sitting on the floor. These are minor matters, but they indicate that the nicely calibrated judgment and control that Mr. Aaron exercised over Six Characters is missing here. Some of his bits of business and blocking are just right, but some are slightly uncomfortable. And he has failed to drill his actors successfully in the cultivation...