Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President laughs a bit more, finds the White House confining, wants to travel out into the country with more regularity. He uses the Oval Office more, at ease now below the stern eye of George Washington, who resides above the fireplace. His globe came with him from the small study. He has learned to converse in Spanish, and his tennis game has strengthened...
...round-table conference, American and British officials are pressing ahead with the plan for calling such a meeting within the next three months. One proposed site: Victoria Falls, with sessions alternating between the Rhodesian and Zambian sides of the magnificent border. Though they may be indulging in a bit of wishful thinking, Western officials suspect that the negotiating process would inevitably tend to separate the pragmatic Nkomo from the zealous Mugabe, and thus pave the way for a broader Rhodesian consensus...
...last week: on Monday, April 17, as whoops and cries echoed through the New York Stock Exchange and floor traders tossed torn-up paper in the air to celebrate, an unbelievable 63.5 million shares changed hands, and the Dow Jones industrial average spurted almost 15 points. Prices stumbled a bit the next two days, but then the Dow rose again. It hit a high of 815 Thursday and ended Friday at 813. Big Board volume during the week totaled 212.3 million shares, easily eclipsing the previous record of 162 million shares traded in the last week of January...
Asked why he had not met with demonstrators outside University Hall this week, Bok said, "After the incident, I've been a little bit afraid that my being there may provoke a reaction that may endanger students." He added his decision was not out of concern for his own welfare...
...speaker was Home Plate, from the Soldiers Field Home Plates, and if he sounds a bit wary, you can't blame him. How would you sound, after all, if history had just been made...