Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sidey sums up Powell's performance this way: "If he is a success so far, it is because Carter runs an open White House. Certainly Powell adds a dimension of humor and quick comeback. But if Carter should ever decide that he wants to close things down a bit, then all those jokes from Jody and his engaging ways would not mean a thing. He would probably be even more reviled for trying to con reporters out of facts by being funny...
...slow as possible." In a speech at the National Press Club last month, he tried to put out some brushfires before they flare up. "What happens at the White House," he said, "is not always as serious as we think it is. We need to relax a little bit, all of us, and get a sense of perspective about each other. Sometimes, when something goes wrong, it's not the result of a conspiracy but merely stupidity. We ought to recall that none of us is held in very high esteem in the country right...
...force? One head of state-speaking very much off the record-suggests that by the 1980s there will be a new generation of Japanese leaders with no sense of war guilt and with none of the restraints that such guilt imposes. He does not care for this prospect one bit. Whatever happens, he predicts that the U.S. withdrawal will create "a new situation with deep implications...
...before he commenced shooting in March 1976. A lot of care and effort went into the movie, and the viewer must keep a grain of salt handy as he takes in Lucas' very deliberate use of tried-and-true cliches--phrases as well as general motifs--that suffuses every bit of celluloid in Star Wars...
...store provided free sundaes for those 350 ladies who turned up. In a half-hour, they consumed 16 gallons of ice cream, four gallons of chocolate, butterscotch, strawberry and pineapple toppings, plus quantities of chopped nuts and whipped cream. Er, Farrah, maybe you had better move over a little bit more...