Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clung firmly to a glass of orange juice, whirling his forefinger alongside his temple to indicate that stronger liquids made him dizzy. What little serious drinking took place was done by dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who hopped about clinking glasses in an unpracticed attempt to work up a bit of gaiety. Perhaps he was still smarting under Bulganin's description of him to the Finns: "Quite a nice chap, but one of those fellows who will sit around all evening at a party saying only two words and next day will say 'What a wonderful time...
...Waving Hand. Unhappily for B. and K., the dignity bit failed to impress the Finns any more than the jollity bit had impressed the British (TIME. April 30, 1956). The crowds that gathered to watch the comings and goings of the Soviet leaders were small and unsmiling. When Khrushchev, riding through Helsinki in an open car, waved to the sidewalk throngs, nol one hand waved in reply, and many a back was pointedly turned. By the end of their first day in Finland, the Russians were so inured to being ignored that when at last a dozen Finns applauded, both...
While Kittinger was being denitrogenized, the balloon was lying flat and limp on South St. Paul's Fleming Field. An Air Force crew turned helium into it, and bit by bit a bubble of plastic reared upward. At last the balloon, as tall as a 25-story building, was standing upright in the still early-morning air. At 6:27 a.m., it took off. Kittinger, his heartbeat still steady, radioed "Goodbye, cruel world...
...days, M.G.M. recalls. Looking back over the past, he says: "What they call la belle epoque was the most hostile and hardest time that ever existed. They are always talking of the good old days. But in those days painters were starving. Nowadays a painter with a bit of talent is driving a car-and he deserves...
...corporations was so great (eight bond issues in the week totaled $103, 575,000) that the corporations had to keep upping their bids for the available supply. The interest rate on top-quality utility bonds rose as high as 4.58%, while the cost on bonds that were rated a bit lower was as much as 4.68%. On some bonds the yields topped those of blue-chip stocks; Columbia Gas System's 5½% debentures were sold at a premium that made their yield 5.40%, while Georgia Power Co.'s 5¼% first-mortgage bonds had a yield...