Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's own mind, one close observer said to Robinson that it was "indolent, superficial, gay, deeply interested in the trivial-yet forced to deal with subjects and problems beyond its comprehension...
...endorsement of his 9,000,000 people down under to what Pearson had said. "The enemy is very astute," Menzies told the U.S. Senate, "to seize upon every point of difference among the governments of free countries, and magnify them. I believe that the points of difference . . . are trivial . . .If we were contemplating a great world war in defense of freedom, you would know, I would know, everyone in Great Britain would know, all around the free world we would know, that we would all be in it together...
...these changes, trivial as some of them are, indicate a future race of superior executives? Says one student: "You go through some soul searching. This may not teach us to make decisions faster-or even as quickly-but they'll be better decisions." Adds a divisional revenue accounting manager: "I used to do only the things that had always been done before. Now I ask myself what this department is going to be like 20 years from now, how this decision is going to fit in. I used to think that there was nothing in life besides earning money...
...problem is an old one, and on the surface a trivial one. A lot of people are simply so nervous and anxious during an examination that they fail to think carefully what the whole thing is all about before they begin. Even the veteran facing his 30th blue book can be struck by this particular malady; it happens to the blase as well as the quivering...
Abroad, the Kremlin's new men have made adjustments, some trivial, some substantial. They sent Russian diplomats back to the diplomatic cocktail parties in Berlin, released swatches of German war prisoners from Russian prisons (the Germans estimate they still hold 138,000). They relaxed pressure on Iran, dropped their demand for the return of Kars and Ardahan from Turkey, resumed relations with Yugoslavia. They arranged for Air France to fly a Soviet-Paris service. They took their places in UNESCO and ILO, which they had previously boycotted...