Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There would be no revolutionary changes, no wrenching of Government. He might tinker a little bit, but it would be within the confines of a tight budget...
...consuming flame," says Duncan. That quality, he says, still survived in the empty studio when he was taking photographs. "It seemed as if he was still there right at my shoulder, doing his work and in a rough sort of bass-baritone, needling me a little bit when...
...means that moneymen so distrust the pound's value that they will seize on almost any excuse to dump sterling. Said one banker: "No one who sold sterling believed that the story was true. They sold because they were afraid someone else would believe it." Even the rare bit of good British economic news cannot soothe these jitters. On Oct. 26 the British government reported that unemployment in September shrank by 78,000, to a total of 1,377,110. The news brought no recovery in the price of the pound...
...remarkable conviction. One reason is Childers' extraordinary affection for his main characters, both the worldly Carruthers and Davies, whom Carruthers has always patronized but comes to admire. There is, of course, a damsel in distress - Clara, whose Englishness in the midst of Germans gives away the plot a bit early. But who cares? A man would have to be a brutish lout not to fall for Clara, with her "brown, firm hand - no, not so very small, my sentimental reader...
Ford's surge in the polls peaked a bit too early. Polls released before the weekend showed the race a virtual dead heat, and for the first time in the campaign, voters were forced to ask themselves if they wanted four more years of a Republican administration...