Word: sideshow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Compared with the Senate, the House was little more than a minor sideshow. Nobody bothered to watch it organize, except members' families and a few sightseers turned away from the big top at the other end of the Capitol. For the first time, the routine was televised (see RADIO); Harry Truman saw it on a ten-inch screen beside his desk...
...modern eye, St. Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
...case was prosaically listed ". . . Vashti McCollum v. Board of Education . . ." but it had some of the same features that made the Scopes "monkey trial" a sideshow of the '20s. And, though the decision would immediately affect only the citizens of Champaign...
...expect something bigger still. Since the Red Armies were about as busy as they could possibly be on the Baltic and Balkan flanks, "something bigger" could only come in the center-in Poland. "What's coming," said Winterton, "will make what's gone by look like a sideshow...
Although the Fifth Army's western push was no sideshow, its future lay in the deep valleys and high peaks of the Apennines. For the Eighth, the future was brighter; the breakthrough would not be complete until Rimini was passed, but beyond that was no natural defensive feature to help the Germans. Beyond, there was nothing but the plain of the Po, with its great industrial cities whose population could be counted on to give the Allies more help than they had received in any other section of Italy...