Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high point. He rode out of town again to lay a wreath at the Ataturk Mausoleum. There he shed his topcoat in the chill evening air, laid a wreath of white and red carnations, stood with head bowed. So many flashbulbs flashed in his face that he seemed a bit blinded. "Do you mind if I take your arm?" he said to a Turkish official as they walked away...
...analyst's couch, Taylor mustered some highly promising recruits. An insurance salesman had long studied classical Greek in night school "for fun." A naval radio instructor had spent all his liberties in the Mediterranean haunting archaeological digs. Others were just as hungry for academic pursuits, though a bit rusty. Most needed help in such forgotten arts as ordering their thoughts in a coherent essay. "At the beginning," recalls Principal Thomas Hollins, "they acted as if they were trying to paint a picture with a pickax...
Measured by popular standards, the London Economist is as out of place on U.S. newsstands as the Congressional Record in Piccadilly Circus. Devotedly British, the 116-year-old weekly Economist is scholarly and staid in its content, a bit stuffy in its appearance, and it usually devotes only five or six pages per issue to the U.S. (in "American Survey," a department introduced seven years ago). Yet last week, in 171 cities from New York to Los Angeles, the Economist did appear on U.S. newsstands. And sales were so brisk, even at 50? a copy, that some spots in Manhattan...
...would have made Grandma shudder, but today it brings smiles of delight to millions of U.S. housewives. The remarkable rise of "conven-ience" or processed foods-heralded by the slogans "instant," "ready to cook" and "heat and serve"-has set off a revolution in U.S. eating habits, brought a bit of magic into the U.S. kitchen. It has freed the housewife from long hours at the stove, made her more conscious of sound nutrition, provided her with a happily bewildering variety of foods and delicacies. A few years ago it took the housewife 5½ hours to prepare daily meals...
...week's end the stock had firmed a bit, was back to 36½. But both the New York Stock Exchange and the Securities and Exchange Commission had some questions to ask Curtiss-Wright and its managers. The exchange began investigating to see if Chairman Hurley or any other officer had bought or sold C-W stock recently. SEC Regional Administrator Paul Windels Jr. questioned Hurley about the price movements of the stock. Said Windels: "We are investigating to see if this sequence of corporation actions was done deliberately to have an effect on the market...