Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trimming President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion fiscal-1958 budget (TIME, Jan. 28). Urged Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, pointing to a display of budget charts on an easel: "Take your scissors right now and point out places where it could be cut." A bit wistfully, Humphrey replied: "If I knew, I would have done so long...
Marshall said that efforts toward integration are made more difficult by the "subconsciously accepted feeling that the Negro is a little bit inferior...
...insisted that the country was swinging, not he. Once the late Justice Robert H. Jackson twitted Reed on growing more conservative. "Either that," said Jackson, "or you're changing your law clerks, Stanley." Reed answered: "It must be the law clerks, because I haven't changed a bit." He now wants to retire, he explained privately to President Eisenhower last week, because he fears that he will soon become too far removed from the realities and practicalities of the issues that come before the court to be able to decide them adequately...
...celebrated in a great big way. Picking up $105,000 petty cash one morning at Calcutta's Communist-capitalist Bank of China, the Dalai Lama continued his madcap spending spree. No haggler, the Lama snapped up a $1,300 diamond-studded watch; when told it was a bit costly, he emitted a hearty, innocent laugh. He also amassed some German cameras, Swiss watches, radios and fountain pens, dropped about $3,000 at the races on tardy nags. He drew the line one evening, however, when a naughty Calcutta nightclub, featuring a couple of near-naked girl dancers, rang...
...Tiger. In Taipei, Formosa, after Bus Driver Lien Maying bit a hole in a passenger's hand when he tried to board her bus with an armload of vegetables, the judge ordered her to pay $6 damages, observed: "It was not ladylike...