Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar with Hunt Clubs, and as his 1943 Plymouth came to a trembling stop on the fine pebble driveway, he bit his lip and looked around uncertainly...
...took a bit of doing, but at last it had come about-a Mediterranean peace conference at which Europeans, Israelis and Arabs would demonstrate their unity through "their common faith in one God." For months La Pira, 54, the dedicated but visionary former mayor of Florence, who once brought his city to the edge of bankruptcy by his lavish program of public works, had worked night and day to compile his volatile guest list. When the conference began in Florence's 600-year-old Palazzo Vecchio. just about everyone invited was there, including eleven ambassadors. Even Italy...
During high school days Stagg read about the youths of Sparta-"particularly the boy who hid a fox in his shirt and never batted an eye when the animal bit into his vitals. That book put Spartan stuff in me." For lack of foxes, Stagg decided that he had to deny himself, to give up something that he cherished. The something was coffee. He has never tasted it since. It was at this time, too-and Stagg remembers the date: May 23, 1877 -that this son of a devout Presbyterian family formally joined the church and decided...
...good fortune most of the scores and some of the masters, which are the first parts taken from the scores and duplicated therefrom, were saved. This means that the creative efforts are still there and we can eventually refurbish our material--however it will take time and quite a bit of money. Of course, as time goes on there will be other pieces of creative arranging done for the Band. It must always be borne in mind, however, that the Band is an extracurricular activity in the same classification with the Dramatic Club, the CRIMSON, the Orchestra, the Hasty Pudding...
...mellow brick, white porticoes and neo-Monticello atmosphere. Reynolds expected furious protests from wave on wave of outraged Virginians. Instead, the distinguished director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Leslie Cheek Jr., told them that whether they knew it or not, their new building was the finest bit of architecture to be erected in Virginia since Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia...