Word: minority
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Which is why the rivalry, such as it is, usually highlighted in terms of football. That is one area where in recent years. Yale has clearly excelled. While one might expect athletics at an academically elite institution to play only a minor role. Yale apologists have insisted that their school's success reflects its characters: "Harvard men might win the one-man competitions, but the team competitions went regularly and decisively to Yale," writes Pierson...
...major breakthroughs were reached on trade problems during the 15.650-mile. 6 1/2 day Asian tour. Reagan said he was putting Bush in charge of a group to minor follow up action...
...Frontiersman who became a minor patron saint of the Kennedy revisionists was Chester Bowles, the career diplomat. He thought that he had located a central problem with the Kennedy Administration. He feared that it deliberately, almost scornfully, detached pragmatic considerations from a larger moral context. To discuss the morality of actions was evidence of softness, and intellectuals with power in their hands cannot bear to be thought soft. Everyone carried the Munich model around in his head. One talked in laconic codes, a masculine shorthand; one did not, like Adlai Stevenson, deliver fluty soliloquies about the morality...
Janka was a relatively junior official and his departure a minor matter, of course...
...York avant-garde would simply have echoed Picasso's dictum that women were always "goddesses or door mats," never painters. Add to this Krasner's prickly contempt for diplomacy with critics, and one can see why for most of her life her work was scanted as "minor," an appendage to Pollock's. Yet though she had to contend with bigotry, her dislike of groups always stopped her from presenting herself as a "feminist" artist. Hence by the '70s there was no lack of denigrators on both sides of the sex war tacitly writing...