Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, one by one, the Senate majority crushed amendments that would have crippled or lessened U.S. participation. On the final vote, the count was 61 to 16 for approval. Next day the House, which had previously passed the bill by 345 to 18, roared its unanimous approval of the minor technical changes the Senate had made...
...Pacific war, U.S. forces have always been handicapped by a dearth of accurate information. One minor example: intelligence officers warned that Okinawa was crawling with poisonous snakes, especially the habu, deadlier than a rattler. Last week some marines reported news of one of the few snakes so far discovered on Okinawa. The habu, cut into fillets and fried, made pretty good eating, the marines said...
Louis P. Lochner, 58-year-old dean of A.P. newsmen in Germany, got a major bumping and minor injuries when a jeep he was riding in Berlin hit a Russian truck...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...
...Rhodes's part, says Author Cloete, since it gave neither God nor Rhodes the controlling interest). But Kruger lived by the Bible. Rhodes was celibate; Kruger had 16 children. Rhodes believed that the world was an egg for his omelette; Kruger believed it was flat - "with certain minor excep tions such as high mountains...