Word: minored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons as the Conservatives (113), have refused so far to vote no confidence in the government and so precipitate another election. But now with a new leader, a fresh platform and reawakened aggressiveness, they may decide to join forces with one of the two minor parties, vote down the government, compel a new election. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, watching the Liberal convention last week on TV from his bedroom, where he was recuperating from a wrenched back, gave back the challenge. He was expected to call for a new vote of confidence this week, dare the Liberals...
...Minor Issue. Taxi drivers touched off the trouble over a relatively minor issue: the tourist agencies' plan to provide bus or limousine service from the new Nassau International Airport, cutting into the taxis' business. Drivers massed their cars at the entrance halting all air traffic when the airport opened in November. They abided by a cooling-off period of six weeks, then struck again last week. Some 2,000 workers from hotels, construction projects, water works and the power plant went out in sympathy and locked up the island...
...have been wiser in the first place to have concealed all of it: wall around the big estates, and abolish from the newspapers those brides in the expensive veils, and keep the cameramen away from the yacht races." There is about Hayes's central character an air of minor damnation, the more poignant because it is insignificant. When struck by thought, she rings dreadfully hollow-and in her hollowness, she sometimes rings true...
Trade & Tariffs. U.S. purchases from Latin America poured $4 billion into the area last year†-a sum half again as much as U.S. economic assistance funds for the whole world. But simply because the trade is so large and so vital, minor changes in U.S. tariffs can affect it drastically. The worst-hurt nation currently is Uruguay. Since 1951 U.S. imports from Uruguay have fallen from $102 million a year to about $18 million, mostly because Western sheep raisers in the U.S. got a prohibitive tariff put on Uruguayan wool. Now the Russians, smoothly operating through Dutch importers, have...
...These minor government officials, he told a meeting of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, can hold up millions of dollars in defense work even after it has been approved by Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...