Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rugby shirt, he seems Elizabethan. O'Callahan writes his own superb stories. The Herring Shed, told from the point of view of a 14-year-old girl learning the mysteries of her first job in Nova Scotia during the darkest days of World War II, is a minor masterpiece of coming-of-age literature. As she strings up her fish to dry, O'Callahan's young narrator is still a charming child, playing at a new game. When she learns, with her I, hands smelling of herring, of the death of her brother on a European battlefield...
...Metropolitan Opera in 1965 with her technical accomplishment and winsome vocal timbre. But Freni's talent still far outshines her American reputation. Her career has been primarily European: between 1968 and 1976 she did not sing in the U.S. at all. True, there were what she describes as "minor tax problems" with the Internal Revenue Service in 1966, but they were not what kept her away. The reason, she says, was motherhood...
...large, well-lit room until the nurse ushers him into one of several treatment areas: a "crash room" equipped with cardiac defibrillators and respirators for the rare patients who arrive with serious problems, an orthopedic room equipped to deal with fractures and sprains, a "suture bay" for minor lacerations, or an X-ray room...
There is also a laboratory to do blood and urine tests and bacterial cultures. About half of MedStop's business comes from doing pre-employment physicals for companies or dealing with minor on-the-job injuries. Employers like MedStop, says Carlyle, "because time is money. We can get people in and out faster than an emergency room or doctor's office and do just as good...
Toledo baseball has its own, local stamp, and it is also distinctly minor league. Absent are the fist fights, but also missing are the hair-raising screams and cheers. A pair of back-to-back Toledo home runs in Saturday's second inning brought about a dozen people to their feet. There's no electronic scoreboard. And the field is parched...