Word: trivially
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...county, those abuilding in China's cities are generally organized around a single factory, government bureau or city neighborhood. To pave the way for urban communes. China's rulers have long been pushing the establishment of neighborhood mess halls, nurseries and housecleaning services, thus relieving women of "trivial housework'' and freeing them for industry. Thanks to this program, 220,000 ex-housewives in Peking alone are now employed in newly established "street industries"-small workshops or factories operated by 30 or 40 inhabitants of a single city street and capable of turning out light consumer goods...