Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write history disguised as fiction, not fiction disguised as history. My Mr. Milton, allowing for Marie Powell's natural bias against the man who defrauded her mother of her "widow's thirds," is precisely the later renegade Milton-not the earlier orthodox Milton of the Minor Poems-who takes shape as one ploughs through the enormous mass of contemporary evidence provided by his Latin and English works, and by the more scholarly modern studies of his life and times...
...Major Problem. Apparently anticipating criticism of Bretton Woods in Congress, Franklin Roosevelt characterized the agreement as "the product of the best minds that 44 nations could muster." He added: "It would be a tragedy if differences of opinion on minor details should lead us to sacrifice the basic agreement achieved on the major problems...
Poland. Russia gets eastern Poland up to the Curzon line (with some minor adjustments "in Poland's favor"), and Poland will get German territory to the west and north. But Stalin agreed that his Lublin Government should be broadened by taking in "democratic leaders from Poland itself and from Poles abroad...
With big-league baseball still in the hoping stage-hoping to limp through another season, mostly on minor league manpower-the baseball news of the week came from Hawaii. There the Navy had assembled not one but two bona fide big-league teams. Managed by Lieut. Bill Dickey, late of the Yankees, the sailors were packing their seabags for an exhibition tour of the farthest-flung Pacific posts. The batting order...
...London. As a police inspector in 1909, he refused to book two men arrested for "unlawfully knocking and ringing" at their own door. Fired, he first besought, then threatened badgered Home Secretary Winston Churchill, was finally jailed for threatening the King & Queen. After 43 jail terms, he became a minor left-wing hero, won a $360 annual pension in reparation from Commons in 1931, continued to orate and smash windows until the noise of war drowned...