Word: trivia
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...will have to devote more of his carefully allotted time than ever now to nurturing this fragile infant that he has helped to midwife into robust life. Good. Let the trivia-like foreign pilgrimages, town meetings and water-project vetoes-that have cluttered and complicated his world so far be conveniently forgotten now and then as he goes after a genuine Middle East peace. That issue and the other big one, inflation, are enough to justify his salary for the rest of the year...
...answered "yes" to any one of these questions that's probably one more right than you'll get after taking this Harvard Sports Quiz. We've chosen only the highlights of the past few years from our trivia file here at the Crimson Sports Cube, so don't go crazy just because Kevin Carr or "Doc" Hines aren't listed...
Along the way, Diane quizzes the group on Elvis trivia: "What was the third television show he appeared on?" Everyone seems to know: "The Ed Sullivan Show!" Diane asks another: "What was the song Elvis sang at a state fair in Tupelo in 1946 to win second prize?" Nancy Jones, 13, who has come all the way from Tulsa with her grandmother, knows right off. Old Shep, she says...
Those papers, insisted the Government, contained vital data about national security. Defense lawyers answered that the sack held little more than "diplomatic chitchat" and assorted trivia. One cable marked SECRET was a published interview. Other sensitive items included copies of the Congressional Record and a book on fish protein concentrate. But some papers were not so banal. Humphrey admitted releasing confidential cables to Truong in the forlorn hope of freeing his mistress. The two defense lawyers cooperated throughout most of the trial, but at the end Humphrey's attorney dramatically turned on Truong, accusing him of being a professional...
...expect very little of our legislatures, and they continually live up to our expectations." In fact, many state legislatures have improved in some respects over the past two decades, attracting members of higher caliber, for example, and tightening up their staffs and internal organization. But their fascination with trivia has, if anything, got worse; microphilia has become chronic and endemic in the statehouses...