Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed destined to represent his relatively affluent Manhattan congressional district for the remainder of his political career. What, after all, could a balding, puckish Greenwich Village bachelor with a near-perfect A.D.A. record have to say to the rest of the hardbitten, crime-ridden, near-bankrupt city? Quite a bit, as it turned...
...equally textless-save for a greeting on the final page. But within its elemental comic-strip layout a series of hilarious sight gags are set up and sent home. Author-Illustrator Ed Emberley has never been a man to pull his punch lines, and his jokes are often a bit too raucous; but then so is the laughter that ensues from their close inspection...
...York's Downtown Athletic Club, and there were rumors that the shippers were feeling pressures to enable the walkout to end. Any deal, however, would have to be approved by the rank and file, so containers will not begin moving immediately and the shortages will last a bit longer...
...national interest in the energy crisis? Not necessarily. Observers as far back as Alexis de Tocqueville have noted the typical American's willingness to yield self-interest for the common good. Yet the U.S., like every known democracy, tends to put off dealing with crisis until a bit after the eleventh hour. "Americans," as Dean Rusk once said, "have a way of doing at the end of the day what they don't want to do at noon...
JOURNALJIBES: Eliot House's "Evening with Champions" show for the benefit of the Jimmy Fund played to an SRO crowd at Watson Rink last night. Tickets still on sale for today's matinee and evening performances. Bit question is whether Master Heimert will ride the Zamboni machine again...Kirkland added the co-edtouch football crown with a 9-7 win over Winthrop earlier this week.... Quincy topped K-House in the soccer championship, pulling out a 1-0 OT thriller...Intramural hoop and hockey to start slates right after Thanksgiving...