Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dramatization of the Agricultural Adjustment Act's history. The new technique disturbed the actors, who threatened to quit, and the public, which disliked the show's left wing sentiments. One patriotic gentleman rose from his seat when he heard part of an Earl Browder speech. He muttered a bit about the Reds and started singing The Star Spangled Banner...
...British owner of millions and a title, Guinness has an easy assignment. He is seldom called on to do more than say a few lines or leer a bit at his young escort. He does the latter admirably, but without suggesting the talents as a comedian which he has shown in most of his earlier pictures. However, Odile Versois, the salesgirl, is an engaging contrast to Guinness' somber tweeds. As a sort of personification of the infinite possibilities offered by Paris in April, she burbles and bubbles over with joie de vivre. Next to her, even the sleek and well...
...other words, the vaccine appears most effective against the worst forms of polio. These results were most clear-cut in the eleven states where vaccine was contrasted with placebo; in the 33 states where children received either real vaccine or nothing, the results were similar but a bit blurred. (Probable reason: anxious parents of children who got no shots may have had them inoculated on the side with gamma globulin, which has a short-lived protective effect.) Among the children who were observed for evidence of polio but who got no shots, there were eleven deaths. Among children...
Decreeing "emergency powers" to himself, Ghulam Mohammed revalidated most of the laws, but last week the court ruled that his action was illegal: only an Assembly and a Governor General acting jointly comprise a sovereign body. This was a bit awkward for Ghulam, who dissolved the Assembly last year and now runs a "controlled democracy...
...first time since 1953, N.I.C.B. thought "a substantial degree of inventory rebuilding was occurring," thereby reducing one of the sources of demand that might take up part of the slack when automakers cut their buying. Even as these reports were being issued, metal prices began to sag a bit. Steel scrap, critically short a few weeks ago, fell $2 a ton, and scrap copper declined...