Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hand to introduce Governor Leader was Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler. When Butler's talk seemed to be running a bit long, some of the guests grew impatient to hear Leader. "Where's that boy from Philadelphia?" cried a man at a corner table. Replied Butler: "He's from Harrisburg, and he'll be with you in a minute." Then, with a grin toward the corner table, he added: "That California wine is wonderful...
...wanted me to know about an immense project that was under way -a project looking to the development of a new explosive of almost unbelievable destructive power. That was all he felt free to say at the time, and his statement left me puzzled. It was the first bit of information that had come to me about the atomic bomb." With the events of that first day whirling in his head, Truman finally returned to his family. That night, he reports: "I went to bed and to sleep...
...just as honestly felt as his own convictions. ("Some of my best friends are Dixiecrats -but they're honest Dixiecrats.") He must stretch all the way from an idealist's demand for nothing less than justice ("On the racial issue, you can't be a little bit wrong any more than you can be a little bit pregnant or a little bit dead") to a practical lawyer's acceptance of what he can get when he knows he can get no more. So stretched, his tense personality reflects the tensions of his job and his time...
Modern archeological methods-including electrical soil probes and carbon 14 dating-are stripping bit by bit the ancient mystery from Stonehenge, the great megalithic monument on Britain's Salisbury Plain. Stonehenge's origin had been forgotten even in Roman times. Now the diggers know the age of different parts of it, where the great stones came from, and what sort of people dragged them to Salisbury Plain. At the Bristol meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Prehistorian R.J.C. Atkinson of the University of Edinburgh told the latest Stonehenge theories...
...Sleigh Ride. As far as Stapp is concerned, his theory needs one final bit of proof: a practical demonstration. He is waiting impatiently for the morning when he will get up, as usual, at 4:30 (after working till midnight), breakfast on coffee and an orange, and drive to the track...