Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the Cornell game he had felt rotten. This morning he finally climbed the three flights in the Hygiene Building. By noon, he lay quietly, shivering a bit, wondering what had brought him to a bad in Stillman...
...President. From the budget they moved on to discuss a wide area of U.S. Government policy. The breadth of their discussion was no surprise. While there is a slogan in Washington that "Money means George, and George means money," the fact is that George means quite a bit more...
...looks as if he were holding a hashish lollipop, and he sighs: "Now I know how the angels feel!" Down on the ground his instructor (James Whitmore) breathes a blessing: "Show 'em up, tiger! You own the sky." All of this naturally makes Airman McConnell seem a bit of a sap as well as a lot of a hero, and strongly suggests that the Air Force itself is just a shining-faced troop of hi-octane Boy Scouts on an overnight hike to Cloud 8. In fairness to the producers, it has to be said that they meant better...
...Hell and Back (Universal) features Audie Murphy, glamourpuss, in the story of Audie Murphy, dogface. Inevitably, the boy seems to be tooting his own tommy gun a bit too loud, but then who else in Hollywood is qualified to play the part of the most decorated soldier in U.S. history-a boy who, at 20, had won every combat medal in the book, from Purple Heart (four times) to Congressional Medal of Honor...
...hundred towns to put the finger on." Australian Novelist Niland, who has been a swagman himself, tells the reader a lot about his homeland in a story as fresh as a billy of tea brewing over a thistle campfire. But for some tastes, he may have spooned in a bit too much sugar...