Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late afternoon, and Kentucky's sports-loving Democratic Governor Albert Benjamin (Happy) Chandler had on his hunting clothes and was carrying a shotgun in the Ballard County Waterfowl Refuge. But was Happy actually hunting? Not a bit of it. Rather, as the story came to be told, he was just sort of standing around bird-watching with Wildlife Commissioner Earl Wallace and a couple of refuge employees. Then suddenly a crippled goose lurched across the horizon, and Happy, with nothing but euthanasian motives, blazed away. He and his companions were promptly collared for hunting afterhours by Game Warden Kendall...
...actually has a problem spending it. In the last fiscal year, expenditures came to a record $1.1 billion, but income (60% from oil) reached a record $1.6 billion. To get rid of it all, the government depends on lavish public works totaling 57% of the budget. Grafters do their bit to balance the books by taking from 10% to 30% on contracts...
...Walls Shook. M-G-M was hopeful that in Actress Schell it had found a dish to tempt the flagging U.S. appetite for films-but was the dish just a little bit too full for the American taste? Director Brooks suggested tactfully that Maria refuse some of those second helpings of Kartoffelklösschen and Sachertorten, and lose a little weight-say, 20 Ibs. Maria agreed, but when she arrived in Hollywood to start shooting, she was as broad as ever. Furthermore, she was dressed like a middle-aged Central European frump. Her frocks were all in the height...
...Most of my adult life was spent working for the News-and I think I may claim that I helped a bit to build it. I served as reporter, editor and head of the United Nations bureau, which I organized. In addition, I wrote half a dozen pretty fair books [including Twentieth Century Warfare, How the Army Fights...
...business about Broadway sin and sex and smoke-filled rooms," Willson says, "but this company is different. It really is. Our kids weep with joy over the show, that's how much they feel about it. Do you know there hasn't been a gripe, not a bit of hysteria, not a fight from anyone since we started...