Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While a few performers struggled over a balky bit of dialogue, the rest of the cast, chorus and crew quit rehearsal for a break. Cigarettes glowed. Wax paper from sandwiches rustled on bare metal chairs. A percolator murmured on a hot plate next to a pile of coffee-stained script books. Six white mice napped in a bird cage in the temporary quiet of Cinderella's kitchen. "They've grown so fast during rehearsal," a prop man said, "that we'll have to get new ones for the show." A bruised plaster pumpkin sat in front...
...facts, as New York Timesman Edwin L. Dale Jr., 33, reported this week: 1) in 1952-55, retail prices of manufactured goods, as well as food prices, declined a bit on the average; 2) the main inflationary factor is not a wage-price spiral so much as the fact that service businesses (mostly small), along with landlords, doctors and dentists, keep pushing up prices of "non-goods"-services, utilities, rents, transportation fares...
...programing, hosted by the Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. Many would agree with Guest Speaker Charles (Twenty One) Van Doren, who told the conference: "You can have faith in an audience. I have heard from so many people who say, 'Please, let's have something that stretches us a bit; let's have something that makes us wake up and even keeps us awake, because television so many times is a kind of soporific-we use it to go to sleep. Please,' they say, 'teach us; we want to know things...
...running events, things are a bit grimmer than they were last year, when the varsity took first and second in the 1000 and second and third in the 600. Both fields have tightened up since then, and the varsity will be hard-pressed to continue its superiority...
...willing to give up the requisite four to six solid weekends during the season, plus a week during the Christmas recess. He would not be paid very much, for the team can afford only to cover his expenses. What the team seeks is a coach who can handle a bit of the organization, inspire his team, and spot flaws in style. He need not necessarily be an excellent skier in his own right, but he should be a good teacher...