Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reports that South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem is about to resign "may be a bit premature," said a State Department official carefully. Returning from Saigon to report to Dwight Eisenhower, the President's special envoy, General J. Lawton Collins, would only say that "We are behind the legal government of Viet Nam," and he didn't mention Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The French government, wise in such subtleties of omission, concluded that General Collins had perhaps given way to them, and was recommending Diem's replacement...
...jail would make him ill. Scoffed blonde, elegant 49-year-old Mrs. Macfadden No. 3: "Go on, he'll outlive us all." Grumbling that his income has dwindled to only $2,000 a month. Macfadden finally put up $10,000 bail, emerged from jail with a bit of philosophy as old but not nearly as bouncy as he was: "Some women are wonderful, and some are she-devils. What are you going to do? You can't do with them, you can't do without them...
...forced to" resign at the outbreak of World War I, after 45 years of devoted naval service, because of public outcry over his German birth. Though he had openly aspired to the post for a good part of his dashing life as a seagoing navyman, handsome Dickie seemed a bit awed at sitting at last in his late daddy's seat. Said he: "I feel like a new boy at school, somewhat bewildered...
...Washington is currently experiencing a flowering of "rank religiosity," writes John Cogley in the weekly, Commonweal, which he used to edit (he is now with the Ford Foundation). "Religiosity-or the God-bit, as it is called in the more cynical capital circles-has long been a part of our political tradition . . . The people, especially religious people, seem to demand it-and who is to say that there may not be some faint ring of sincerity as the politico's little coins of godliness are dropped? [But] the new God-bit is more serious. It is the identification...
...easily become the big popular Broadway musical it plainly hoped to be. In one thing it can take real pride: its luscious chorus line. It has also a sort of faded pep and dated breeziness, but these links with the past make it frightfully reminiscent yet not the least bit nostalgic...