Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last fortnight, a young Palestinian Arab employed as a senior translator by the Arabian-American Oil Company in Dhahran, was awakened by a Saudi Arabian cop. "Here's the list," softly murmured the Saudi cop, handing over a bit of paper with 72 names scrawled upon it. The translator knew what was expected of him: to check off a new batch of "undesirable" Palestinian Arabs on Aramco's staff, slated for arrest and deportation by royal decree...
Haya emerged from eleven years of hiding to become Peru's unofficial strongman. He first tightened socialistic controls on prices and currency exchange, a move every bit as alarming as the conservatives had feared. They boycotted Congress, paralyzing it. Then came violence: the assassination of the editor of La Prensa, the Apra-hating newspaper owned by conservative Cotton Exporter Pedro Beltrán. Apristas were blamed; President Bustamante called for a soldier to take charge of public order. His choice: gimlet-eyed Colonel Manuel Odria, then chief of staff...
Chairman-elect Chamberlain was a 24-year-old dress designer in London when she heard her call to the church ("At first it seemed a bit highfalutin. But I just couldn't do anything other than be a minister"). She took a B.D. at King's College, London University, in 1946 was appointed first woman chaplain to the armed forces. The next year she married a Church of England priest, the Rev. John Carrington. For a while she was pastor of the Vineyard Congregational Church in Richmond, Surrey, about four miles from Hampton, where her husband is vicar...
...harsh word for the hard-muscled men who get paid for beating each other's brains out for the television audience, but all last month it seemed a mild word indeed for the men who really cash in on the boxing racket. Managers, seconds, two-bit camp followers and big-shot promoters trooped down to the New York State Athletic Commission to put on a command performance for Julius Helfand, New York's crusading new commission chairman, and showed all the symptoms of psychosomatic lockjaw. For sheer, simple-minded effrontery, there had been nothing like it since...
...settles down to a tasty feast of ham-and-egoism. "You are a fraud-a clever, charming, amusing fraud"; "You may be regarded ... as highly intelligent, yet your intelligence is curiously limited, sterile, and stunted"; "In many respects you are not a bad woman"; "You are a bit like a character out of a Chekhov play...