Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, one cannot do anything the least bit unusual without attracting a horde of reporters, whose delicacy is not among their virtues. After Miss Lucy arrived, Tuscaloosa became an arena in which for almost a week reporters beat the bushes for stories, and television cameramen vied with each other for the most sensational shot of the day. One picture sold to a syndicate for $1,500. In this circus-like atmosphere, students were more than willing to perform, while even faculty members rarely hid from the bright lights of national publicity...
...accepted observation in Texas-where observations are made at the drop of a Stetson-that all you need to stir up a devil-duster is a little bit of wind. The wind started to blow when Dallas Morning News Columnist Frank X. Tolbert allowed as how it was curious that Denison-born Dwight D. Eisenhower had given Tyler as his birthplace when he enrolled at West Point...
...What Mr. Stauffer has purchased is a dead horse of fantastic proportions, and his bill of sale has bought him largely the right to use his brains and energy to try to revive it. Mr. Stauffer, however, is one of the shrewdest businessmen in Kansas. He has never yet bit off anything without knowing clearly in advance exactly how it should be chewed...
...coyly, and smirking a bit): What did he do before he retired...
...Murrow's Person-to-Person (CBS), on which she volunteered a friend's suggestion for her tombstone ("She did it the hard way"), while Husband Gary Merrill suggested that if Bette had not become an actress she would have been president of Lord & Taylor. Best bit: Bette reading from Robert Frost's Fire and Ice ("I hold with those who favor fire...