Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bit too stuff shirty...
...letters, telegrams, telephone calls and personal pleas. During an annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the veteran lobbying group for all Jewish organizations, some 600 members fanned out in Washington to besiege members of Congress on the plane package. Generally, their pitches were not the least bit subtle; the Senators' votes would be "a litmus test" of whether they deserved continued Jewish support. "It was very personal lobbying, terribly intense," observed one pro-Administration lobbyist trying to compete with the Jewish campaign...
However, each Administration imposes its own stamp on foreign policy, by turning a little bit from one side to the other. I think there are certain distinctive aspects to the Carter foreign policy...
Cauthen may still lack a bit, perhaps, of the ruthless will to win that marks the enduring greats of race riding. He remains Myra and Tex Cauthen's well-brought-up boy, a kid who spent the night before the Kentucky Derby in a sleeping bag on the floor of a hotel suite crowded with relatives because, as Brother Doug, 15, quite logically explains: "It was his turn...
...fully been born. This, he felt, explained his fondness for curling up in dark rooms, his urge to hide from an insistently garish reality. "I'm looking for my mother to kill her," says the narrator of The Unnamable. "I should have thought of that a bit earlier, before being born." Beckett's own austere, tyrannical mother hounded him and his thoughts; he could not stand to be with her and writhed with guilt when he was away. His succinct comment: "What a relationship...