Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, the atmosphere grew so tense that the resplendently robed Honorable Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. Finance Minister of the federal government of Nigeria, felt obliged to do a bit of prodding. "Why are we so solemn?" he cried. "Let's cheer our speakers and try to be happy!" The 175 delegates to the opening meeting of the newly created U.N. Economic Commission for Africa had first to find out whether they could even get along with one another...
Doing his bit to whoop the boys up for the annual damn-the-Democrats exercises at Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...
...work with. They had a $6,000,000 production nut to crack, along with "a million-two" ($1,200,000) set aside for promotion. They had Vista-Vision, Technicolor, five big stars (Charles Boyer, Charlton Heston, Claire Bloom, Inger Stevens and the berugged Brynner), 55 featured players, 100 bit-players, 12,000 calls for extras, 60,000 props-including 15 authentic pirogues, $100,000 worth of genuine antique furniture and two boxcarloads of Spanish moss and cypress trees. Not to overlook one of the best true-adventure stories in American history...
Back at the beginning of the century, when classes numbered only about 400 students, it was possible for an undergraduate to know at least a little bit about each person in his class, and in those days a class-wide election could have considerable meaning. As things stand at present, although one may regret the growth of the College into such a large, impersonal body, one can scarcely deny that the election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition...
Auntie Mame. Rosalind Russell is terrific as the world's most celebrated aun-tique, but as far as the script is concerned, it's a bit of a shame about Mame...