Word: trivializations
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...Spring, Md. The other apartments are occupied by Bill Lewis, her ubiquitous administrative assistant, and his parents. Her office is run with taut efficiency, and every letter is answered by return, mail. One fetish: her insistence on maintaining a near-perfect record of voting on every Senate measure, however trivial. The record to date: 908 roll calls...
...hear a great deal about "growth," but I venture to say that neither party will dare to say a word about the greatest single obstacle to growth, namely the opposition of almost all labor unions to increasing production. Federal money for schools, housing, sewage disposal, etc. would be trivial compared with the growth that would be brought about if organized labor took its foot off the brake...
Baltimore-born Spinster Henrietta Szold, at 49, was heartbroken because a romance with a rabbinical scholar had come to an end. As balm, her mother suggested a trip to Gilead. What Zionist Szold saw in Palestine under Turkish rule in 1909 made her personal troubles seem trivial. In Jerusalem's Old City, she saw a child's trachoma-dimmed eyes covered with flies, and when she asked the mother why the flies were not brushed away, she was told: "They will only return...
...Prickly Heat. Usually trivial, but may be incapacitating if it affects large areas or becomes infected. Prevention: wear loose, well-ventilated clothes, bathe often with little soap. Remedy: keep in a cool, dry place. (Creams, ointments and powders may do more harm than good...
...prayer is not the whimpering of a beggar nor a confession of love. Nor is it the trivial reckoning of a small tradesman: Give me and I shall give you. My prayer is the report of a soldier to his general: This is what I did today, this is how I fought to save the entire battle in my own sector, these are the obstacles I found, this is how I plan to fight tomorrow. It is not God who will save us-it is we who will save God, by battling, by creating, and by transmuting matter into spirit...