Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holiday for Lovers (by Ronald Alexander) concerns a well-heeled Minneapolis family's first trip to Europe. Beginning in Manhattan, the Dean family and the play move from one hotel suite to another (Manhattan, Paris, Seville, Rome, Paris). Father, despite a heart of gold, is a bit Babbitty, short-tempered and over-possessive of his two daughters; Mother Knows Better and, between visits to Dior and Balenciaga, smooths things out; one daughter acquires a pianist and the other a painter. The usual names are on the Deans' list-the Sistine Chapel, the Catacombs, the Louvre; Mr. Dean...
...beginning of the season, Heckscher was ranked seventh in the country, grouped with such near-great players as Cal McCracken, and Henry Foster. Now, however, he appears to have moved a bit past these men and is ready to make his bid for the top prize...
...Charities themselves were dubious choices. Except for PBH, which will probably receive its money, none of the groups had any particular meaning to Harvard students. Having already done our bit for WUS, it seems unnecessary to contribute to it again, particularly when Radio Free Europe or CARE are far better known and perhaps more worthwhile...
...every bit of you is delicate. Choice. Delectable, I might...
...Gaza Strip is a geographic absurdity-an ownerless, 5-by-25-mile enclave of sand, hate and history (Samson pulled down the temple in Gaza), jutting from the world's most troubled frontier. The last surviving bit of the old British Palestinian mandate, this narrow ribbon of primitive coastal land was administered from 1949 until last fall by the Egyptians, who kept lackadaisical order among its 90,000 poverty-stricken, disease-ridden Arab natives, and left to the U.N. relief agency the care and feeding of the 219,000 Palestinian refugees huddled there since the 1949 armistice...