Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis of knowledge he picked up on Sunday walks with his father, George Craig figures that he is one of the few governors in the U.S. who can identify edible mushrooms. ("The spring kind's the best-morels. Sponge type, brown on top.") He has another bit of information that probably is unique among U.S. governors. One day, hunting with schoolmates, he reached into a rabbit hole, pulled out an animal. He found himself holding an angry skunk in front of his face. Says Craig: "I know how it tastes-kinda sweet; I know how it feels in your...
...adults. For one thing, some grownups object to being put in a class with boys and girls half their age. More important, many have learned enough on their own to put them way ahead in some subjects. Even without an A.B., a businessman is apt to know quite a bit about economics. A writer should have learned something of English composition, and an accountant probably has a good grasp of mathematics. Why, Spengler and Stern wanted to know, shouldn't the college give such students credit where credit...
...psychiatrists than she had always had, the woman went home on a maintenance dose of one reserpine pill a day. Her husband had only one complaint: she had become so demanding in her new-found love for him he wondered whether the doctors could make her pills a bit smaller...
Rutter continued, "Now if I can get commercial for a minute, I'd like to tell everybody that the Yearbook this year will be every bit as good as the parody. Every bit. Not almost as good. Every bit as good...
Clarence Brown bit his lower lip, jammed his hands in his pockets and slouched off the House floor. Cleveland Bailey charged into the House well to register a technical protest. He was over ruled. Les Arends, leaving the chamber with sweat dripping from his forehead, sighed: "And they say we don't earn...