Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the week the House was in a minor pandemonium, with members milling around, gliding in & out of doors, haranguing one another, jostling down the aisle to have their noses counted. In the midst of what looked like a county fair, Administration forces were making good at last on a major Truman campaign promise: federal help in building homes for the country's ill-housed...
...After World War I, Sophoulis joined the late Eleutherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, became its leader after Venizelos' death. Under Sophoulis' vacillating hand, it rapidly declined. Through Greece's coups d'état and minor revolutions, Sophoulis had usually tried to stick close to the middle of the road. He was an antiroyalist but he served five Greek kings; he was an anti-Communist but he was frequently supported by the Communists in Parliament; he was an anti-Fascist but during the Metaxas dictatorship (1936-41) he simply lived in retirement. After World...
...think I shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha; Rochester). Last week, with his .309 batting average making up for occasional fielding lapses, the Cardinals' Kazak was one of the leaders in 1949's "rookie-of-the-year" race...
Roughshod (RKO Radio) is a modest little film which offers several minor but pleasant surprises. It is a western, but it is hardly recognizable as such, since it was filmed in black & white against a landscape not even remotely resembling a Grand National Park. Its story is peopled mostly by quiet, plausible characters who engage in no horsy heroics and in only one shooting fracas. In fact, its hero (Robert Sterling) openly confesses to a distaste for manslaughter...
Even as hospitals go, Manhattan's famed Memorial Hospital is not a light-hearted place. Its corridors never echo with the happy sounds of a maternity ward. No one is there because of minor ailments or for a good rest. Most of the patients know that their chances of recovery, though somewhat better every year, are poor indeed. Visitors passing through the lobby often look stunned by grief. Memorial is a tragic place because its patients are victims of cancer...