9 December 2017 – sidebar

9 December 2017

sidebar

[sahyd-bahr]

noun

1. follow-up (def 3b).
2. a typographically distinct section of a page, as in a book or magazine, that amplifies or highlights the main text.
3. a conference between the judge and lawyers out of the presence of the jury.
4. a subordinate or incidental issue, remark, activity, etc.

Origin of sidebar

1945-1950 First recorded in 1945-50; side1+ bar1

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Examples from the Web for sidebar

Contemporary Examples

sidebar : the Electoral College is the balk rule of government.
Baseball’s Problem Is Politics’ Problem
Doug McIntyre
November 4, 2014

Its addictive “ sidebar of shame” catalogues every celebrity roll of fat, fashion faux pas, and shaky early-morning nightclub exit.
Hollywood vs. The Daily Mail: George Clooney and Angelina Jolie Take On The UK’s Leanest, Meanest Gossip Machine
Lizzie Crocker, Lloyd Grove
July 12, 2014

He went on to describe the probe as a “ sidebar issue” and hinted it was politically motivated.
Scott Walker Investigated in Secret Wisconsin Probe
Ben Jacobs
October 24, 2013

Anagram

braised
a debris
a brides
dab sire
I beards

 

 


Today’s quote

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

– Mahatma Gandhi


On this day

9 December 1906 – birth of Sir Douglas Nichols KCVO, OBE. Aboriginal activist, raising awareness of aboriginal issues, including treating aborigines with dignity and as people. He played for Carlton football club in the A-grade Victorian Football League (VFL), leaving after racist treatment and joining the Northcote football club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA). Nicholls became a minister and social worker. In 1957, he was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1972 he was the first aborigine to be knighted. In 1976, he became the 28th governor of South Australia, the first aborigine to be appointed to a vice-regal position. He died on 4 June 1988.

9 December 1947 – Deputy Prime Minister of India, Sandar Valiabbhai Patel announces that India and Pakistan have reached an agreement on the borders of the two countries following partition … except for the issue of Kashmir, which is unresolved to this day.

9 December 1990 – Polish dissident, Solidarity union leader and 1983 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Lech Walesa wins Polish presidential election in a landslide. Solidarity was the Soviet Bloc’s first independent trade union. Walesa presided over Poland’s transition from a communist state to a post-communist state.

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