Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Missing Idea. The behind-doors debate dragged on for half a year after the Russians exploded "Joe One." Then, in late January 1950, a shocking bit of intelligence decided the issue: German-born British Physicist Klaus Fuchs confessed that he had passed atomic secrets to Communist agents. Fuchs had been present at Los Alamos when Teller & Co. reviewed all that was known about thermonuclear reactions. Four days after Fuchs's confession, Harry Truman directed AEC to go ahead with the H-bomb...
...haven't been invited to the White House in two years," he said, lifting the curtain a bit. "You know you can go to some people and say, 'Look, I'm going to tell you this for your own good.' You can't do that with Ike any more. He gets irritated." Godfrey also revealed that even his longtime friendship with ex-Defense Boss Charlie Wilson had deteriorated to just "polite phone calls on birthdays...
...minutes of bumbling sight gags and strangulated cliches, e.g., a loveless Lucy's groan, "They weren't kidding when they said this ship was on its maiden voyage." Fortunately, saucer-eyed Lucille took her lumps with undiminished zest and even worked her putty face through one funny bit in which she and Desi, meeting for the first time in a Havana night club, swapped pitter-pats in a love duet on the bongo drums. The messages between them grew more frantic, and after beating out an abandoned rhythmic burst, Lucy shrieked in astonished self-admonition: "What...
...spread across the full spectrum. But while in past years the great majority saw nothing except boom on boom, this time the prevailing forecast was for a downturn-though a minor one. Of 68 conference members answering a poll on 1958 business, most agreed that business would slip a bit until well into 1958, with an upturn starting late in the year. Only five expected a steady rise throughout the year; only four predicted a continuous decline. Said Leonard Smith, commercial research manager for U.S. Rubber Co.: "This is one of those modern recessions where no one feels much pain...
...enters a striptease contest to get rich quick. It turns out to be slow work, though, especially for the audience. Most of the time the journalists seem to be doing a class-day imitation of Martin and Lewis, and though Brigitte undresses charmingly, she's just a bit too sisterly about it. Still, she's a fetching little hussy, and the language she speaks can be understood without subtitles...