Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King's illness, certainly not trivial, has been developing for many months, but he did not consult any of the palace doctors until about ten days before the birth of Princess Elizabeth's son. First symptoms are usually tired legs and cold feet; he has probably been suffering from these symptoms for some time, but blamed too much walking or standing. On Nov. 6 he did a lot of cross-country walking while hunting at Windsor; that night, after attending a British Legion Remembrance Festival, he complained that his right foot bothered him, but the next...
...published his first poems, joined the Army under an assumed name, served two years, and in 1830 was appointed to West Point. Much older than his fellow cadets, and a hardened veteran, he spent seven months at the Point, then engineered his own court-martial and dismissal (for trivial offenses...
...Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...
...Poland or Stalin's for Berlin. Great nations are not powder kegs exploding into war at the drop of a carelessly tossed diplomatic démarche. Nor are they children, to be pacified by a conciliatory lollipop. Situations ripe for war find the specific issues (sometimes quite trivial ones, like Sarajevo) that start the shooting. Situations not ripe for war ignore specific issues (sometimes very serious ones, like Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland...
Husband & Wife Programs: "Cleverly blending commercials with gossip . . . the husband and wife mate the trite with the trivial and foal the drab...