Word: trivial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfortunate war. As a Japanese newspaperman I can say that they are never described in the press as the enemy. Indeed newsmen take very cautious effort not to translate directly into Japanese the word "enemy" which appears so often in American news agency dispatches about the Viet Cong. A trivial thing it might seem, but one which is closely related to the basic difference between American and Japanese opinion...
Served between Clevelands, and Save for this trivial Idiosyncracy, Didn't do much...
Occasionally the Center's programs makes headlines, but it prefers inconspicuous projects, like mapping the City's historical plaques. It would be easy to dismiss most of its work as trivial...
...whole argument is a confusing mess that Senate investigating committees have been at a loss to unravel. At any rate, the petty officials and the petty coaches go at one another, and just like in the similarly trivial NCAA-Ivy League squabble, the losers are the athletes. The hopelessness of the participants' situations was highlighted by Villanova's superb Irish runners. Ian Hamilton and Frank Murphy. If they competed, they were threatened with losing the eligibility to compete on Irish national teams and in the Olympics. If they didn't run, they would be violating their athletic scholarships and might...
...Society become insular. Nearly all Wilson members are of this outcast variety. They care very little about actively participating in changing the system. Instead of providing the nucleus of this year's revolt, they were repelled by it. The club system is an incredible joke to them, too trivial to bother with. So they left the revolt to the campus leaders--club members who were involved in the system and wanted to change it. Not radically, now. Just an adjustment in Bicker...