Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bills, the Senate has pushed through 424. But most of this action has been a spinning of small wheels. In a recess time summation of the "50 most important bills passed by the Senate," so far, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson had to pad even that list with essentially trivial legislation, e.g.: "H. R. 3233 ... makes it a federal offense to move across state lines to avoid prosecution or custody for arson...
With a burst of energy the U.S. Senate passed 163 bills (most of them trivial). Among its works, the Senate...
...After all," he says, "the law is a precarious profession and it's not easy to come by this much money all at once." And he adds, with typical self-deprecation: "Especially for someone like me, whose one great tal ent is an infinite capacity for the trivial...
...their seriousness and the notably criminal circumstances surrounding them, and because they symbolize an alarming social disintegration." The church newspaper El Catolicismo was additionally irked that Rojas' son-in-law and No. 1 apologist, Samuel Moreno, should try to laugh off the riot in his newspaper as "trivial and paltry." Said El Catolicismo: "Thousands of witnesses denounce the vengeful spirit in which the riots avenged discourtesy with inhuman cruelty, cowardice [and] a reign of brute force...
...Herald said in its lead editorial yesterday morning, "Mr. Aldrich's record as a loyal citizen, lawyer, and judge is uninpeachable." The newspaper charged that McCarthy was seeking to intimidate the judiciary by attacking on "trivial" grounds, "a judge whose decision he disapproved...