Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even to the most ardent supporter of Turkey's new military regime, the mass trial on Yassiada Island of hundreds of officials of the old civilian government seemed to be off to a shaky start. It was bad enough to begin with the trivial charge that ousted President Celal Bayar -onetime companion in arms to the late great Kemal Ataturk-had gypped the government in the sale of a shaggy dog. Last week the prosecution seemed intent on proving only that ex-Premier Adnan Menderes, married and the father of three sons, was indiscreetly fond of girls...
Meanwhile, the pool reports from the Kennedy homes became even more trivial in another sign of the Kennedy camp's confidence. The reports, prepared this morning by Mary McGrory of the Washington Star, referred to Kennedy as the "President-elect," and showed that the Kennedy clan was relaxing and merely waiting for Nixon to admit defeat...
...Bunny and Cuckoo and Buddha, as they always are in British light fiction. No one knows why, just as no one knows why characters in U.S. ladies' fiction are all named Brett and Brick and Brack and Blade.) The tizzies in which the islanders become involved may be trivial-can anyone really fret about the problems of a cuckolded duke if he is called Droopy?-but they are enjoyed by all hands, including the author...
Actually a deeper dissatisfaction than trivial plays had inspired it: a dissatisfaction with the shabby world that Shelagh Delaney knew at first hand, and a sense of blockaded lives. It is a dissatisfaction that very often leaps to life through words that have edge and ring true, among people who are disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant...
...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...