Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marshall's audience knew before he spoke, the Secretary of State would merely add his bit to the usual commencement pieties. No ballyhoo had preceded him; no Washington flacks had scurried about alerting the press that a "major" statement would be forthcoming. In fact, say some who were there, neither Marshall's typically spare language nor his earnest but dry delivery awakened that gathering fully to a realization that here history was being made...
...meeting of the FOMC was that some trimming of the growth of the money supply is necessary; too much money had begun to flood into the economy as it picked up steam in early spring. The group's decision was to push the federal funds rate up a bit, to as much as 5½%. The Federal Reserve's tighter money policy is already showing up in higher short-term interest rates-to which the stock markets are keenly sensitive-as well as in a rise in the prime lending rate that banks charge their best customers...
...Greatest such an agreeable experience? The answer is that The Greatest, a.k.a. Muhammad Ali - who created this role originally for sportswriters and polished it before a thousand television audiences - has now immortalized it on celluloid with perfect ease and confidence. In real life he has become a bit of a bore, especially as his skills in his higher calling, as perhaps the most artful heavy weight in history, have slipped. But .if he can no longer quite remember what to do in the ring, his recall of his marvelous performances outside it is perfectly intact. He can recreate...
...Mondrian that the grid paintings he made from the late '30s onward incessantly allude. Cavallon's geometrical works, like one dated 1946, are not Utopias: there is little of Mondrian's austere, architectonic rectitude in them. They are sociable, warm, busy and a bit sloppy. They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale. But they do supply the underpinning on which nearly all Cavallon's later work is based-a firmly cubist structure, distantly suggestive of fields, porticoes or rooms, veiled...
...fingers. A few days later, the youth was released and sent home to Kentucky to recuperate. The doctors' orders: no riding for at least six weeks, putting a temporary halt to the jockey's unmatched five-month winning spree. The grounded Cauthen is already champing at the bit. "He's mad that he's not out racing today," says his mother, Myra Cauthen. "He just wants to get back...