Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, still a bit astonished by it all, Editorialist Soth was off touring the U.S.S.R. with a group of Americans, while twelve Soviet agricultural bosses thrashed happily through Iowa's tall-corn country - shoulder deep in corn, hogs, hospitality and home cooking...
...Geneva was to be measured by the spirit, as all the participants insisted it should be, then quite a bit was achieved...
...fragile, doll-like beauty. Goya drew and painted her often, sometimes with admiration and sometimes in anger at her wild flirting. Once he showed her carried away by witches and looking as cool as ever. When she died, he turned from palace to street life, found it every bit as weird. He was the first social commentator in art to recognize and dispense with the unconscious snobbism of picturesque effects...
...places. At Rosati's Café, strollers can spot most nights Novelist Alberto Moravia, Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, or, after Midnight, Film Star Anna Magnani and Director Vittorio De Sica. Across the street, the Strega's tables swarm with so many starlets and bit players that harried directors have been known to hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders for milkshakes or ham-and-eggs without batting...
...planed down like a surfboard. The mainsail boom sliced dangerously through the sea. One night Crewman Bob Carlson dreamed that a mast fitting had broken and dumped the boom overboard. He awoke, went on deck and found that the fitting of his dream had indeed worked loose. A bit more stress and the boom could have gone to complete the nightmare...