Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first glitter of the revolution has dimmed. The sandalmakers, smiths and petty merchants in the capital's dark-shadowed bazaars have found that life goes on much as before, with the rich a bit poorer and the poor no richer. Petty politicians grumble that they have not been allowed to form parties. Intellectuals complain that all but three Baghdad newspapers have been closed down (under Nuri asSaid there were nine...
Role Fitters. It was almost easy to fit actors to the roles as they emerged in the script. Actor Thomas Gomez was a natural; without a bit of special makeup he was Georgy Malenkov's double. Luther Adler fitted smoothly into place as Molotov, Oscar Homolka as Khrushchev, E. G. Marshall as Beria. Stalin was harder to cast. After considering Laurence Olivier and José Ferrer, Coe decided on Melvyn Douglas, whom he had admired as Clarence Darrow in Inherit the Wind...
...large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando for a bit of high-class haggling over tea and Turkish cigarettes...
...Goren's team, Schenken is a highly deceptive player, masks his imaginative boldness with an air of easygoing calm. In contrast, Washington's quick-minded Alvin Roth, 43, is a worrier, and shows it. No. 6 in master points with 3,849^, Roth "suffers from being a bit of a genius," according to one fellow expert. With his explosive partner Tobias Stone, he devised some widely used bidding innovations, including the "preempt overcall" (e.g., North, one diamond; East, two spades) to show a single strong suit with little side strength, and the "unusual no trump" (e.g., North...
...lids above expressive grey-green eyes, the coolly beautiful woman saw that she was still as the world once knew her. Last week Cinemactress Gene Tierney was back in a Hollywood dressing room-back from a mental institution. Was that foreboding phrase a shame to hide? Not a bit. To ex-Patient Tierney, 37, Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic was an exultant experience...