Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...famous San Francisco earthquake of 1906 that killed thousands of people registered an 8.3 on the Richter scale. Yesterday's, in comparison, probably brought no damage because it started in an unpopulated area. Even if it had centered in a major city it would only have caused minor damage to a few chimneys, walls, and tombstones, said John Ebel, a seismologist at an observatory in Weston, Mass...
...Minor League Commissioner Bill Bramham exploded: "Father Divine will have to look to his laurels, for we can expect Rickey Temple to be in the course of construction in Harlem soon." Ex-Star Rogers Hornsby put his finger on a sore spot: "Ball players on the road live [close] together. It won't work." Most baseball men, after an initial blush, realized that it could and perhaps would work (it had worked pretty well in college sports...
...nation's most fiercely fought legal battles. Thanks to the Texas waitress and the poverty-stricken Georgia housewife, every woman in the U.S. now has the same right to an abortion during the first six months of pregnancy as she has to any other minor surgery...
...vaccine causes a minimum of undesirable side effects-all, apparently, minor...
National Velvet is not merely sure to delight children and the child in most adults; it is also an interesting psychological study of hysterical obsession, conversion mania, preadolescent sexuality. Twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, a beautiful little girl who has hitherto had minor roles in Lassie Come Home, Jane Eyre, etc., is probably the only person in Hollywood who could bring to this curious role its unusual combination of earthiness and ecstasy...