Word: bissel
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...Crimson's California party ended for good yesterday afternoon when Zimmerman and Shyjan, the ninth-ranked doubles team in the country, could not get untracked against Fritz Bissel and Mark Knowles, dropping a 6-4, 6-2 decision...
After all, it wasn't the prayers we didn't understand or the events at Mt. Sinai that made us Jewish--it was the family gatherings at Hannukah and Passover, the special appreciation of Woody Allen, the grandparents who used a bissel (a little) Yiddish. It was corned beef with mustard on rye, not with mayonaise on white. It was having Sunday brunch more religiously than Shabbat meals. It was seeing everyone we knew at synagogue twice a year, and pretending spare ribs didn't count as pork in the Chinese restaurant. And it was suffering an afternoon a week...
...dancing with the gypsy band, returns to her home in the Spanish valley town of Sargossa and is reunited with her family. Although the plot sounds exciting the dance itself did not leave one enthused. The leading dancer, Martine van Hamel, displayed technical expertise although her partner, patrick Bissel, looked lost and confused. He did not dance energetically, which only served to dampen the dance's already slow-moving place...
Request for Boxer. Sunday evening, only some eight hours after Kennedy had given the final go-ahead, the expedition in the first dark was creeping toward the Cuban shore. In Bissel's office, there was a call on the White House line. It was Bundy, being even crisper than usual: The B-26s were to stand down, there was to be no air strike in the morning, this was a presidential order. Rusk was now acting for the President in the situation. Bissell was stunned. He and CIA Deputy Director General Charles Cabell, an experienced air man, went together...
...Russian zone of occupation, the anti-Communist Viennese have only hatred and fear. For the 10,000 easygoing, sometimes ill-mannered American G.I.s, Viennese have a kind of cultural scorn-and a cultural weakness. Such Yank idioms as "50-50," "yam [i.e., jam] session" and "get a bissel [i.e., a little] in the mood" have crept into the Viennese vernacular. Fruit juices, powdered coffee and Coca-Cola from American PXs are standard in the Viennese way of life. Austrian counterparts of American bobby-soxers are singing such ditties as Kaugummi oder Ich muss den Johnny kiissen...