Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slander is defamation by word of mouth, legally a rather minor offense. Libel, much more serious, has always been defined by the law books as defamation by printed word...
...after the visit, those who thought the Marshall-Stalin talk would speed agreement seemed to be right. The Foreign Ministers ticked off, with minor disagreements, 15 minor articles of the proposed Austrian peace treaty. Then the sessions bogged down again. On every major question, Russia and the U.S. were at odds. Russia asked that a slice of Austria (southern Carinthia) and $150 million in reparations from Austria be given to Yugoslavia. The Western powers refused. Russia wanted "German assets" in Austria (available for seizure as German reparations) defined to include all property transferred by Austrians to Germans during the Anschluss...
...rubble, we saw one evening a wisp of smoke curling upwards. We picked our way down a broken flight of steps and knocked at a battered wooden door. A woman opened it and urged us to enter. In a room 12 ft. by 16 ft. we found a minor miracle of family planning. Seven people lived, cooked, ate and slept in this space, whose only privacy was a tiny curtained cubicle behind a big brick Russian stove, on top of which a boy slept at night. The room, a salvaged bit of cellar with a 2 by 3 ft. window...
...support program, farmers have maintained production at about one-third greater than the prewar level. "This has of course done more," Anderson claimed, "to hold food prices down and assure relatively plentiful food supplies in this country than anything else. . . . Current price support activities are minor and are exerting almost no effect on food prices...
...state legislature which can give hours to personal byplay on trivial issues ought to be able to spend a few days earnestly deliberating a potentially critical change in the country's political structure. And organizations in this state which become rightfully indignant on relatively minor subjects before the legislature ought to think twice about the consequences of this amendment before shrugging it off as too trivial for their concerted opposition...