Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greek, Dodecanese meand "Twelve Islands." Actually there are some 50 islands in the Dodecanese group, lying off the shores of Asia Minor...
...view of the fact that you once accused me in your columns of being "vinegary," and on another occasion labeled me as "a minor league wit," you will realize how it pains me to write this letter. Nevertheless your magazine over the last four weeks has been a major league triumph, and as a fellow craftsman in the black art of journalism, I must pay this tribute...
World Communism, which seemed to be encroaching almost everywhere last week, suffered a minor setback in Paris. The dour plotters in the Kremlin lost no sleep over it, but Maurice Thorez, French Communist leader, undeniably lost face. For a few days, in fact, his pudgy face was literally disfigured...
TIME got the sense of that assumption into its report of the conference-but in so doing it missed a lot of excitement. Most of the dailies panted through new crises with every edition. If Molotov frowned, peace was doomed. If he conceded a minor point, Russian basic policy seemed to have undergone a complete transformation. Radio listeners could almost hear the thud of hooves in the background of the conference bulletins. "Now Molotov's ahead. But he looks tired. Stettinius called a press conference. . . ." All this nonsense was so vastly confusing (and so essentially false) that many readers...
...doubt The Common Chord will be belittled by those who mistake lugubriousness for seriousness and who dismiss O'Connor as a minor writer unworthy of his master, Joyce. But to write a work of minor stature as well as O'Connor does is in itself a kind of triumph all too rare...