Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devoted to correcting stories from the July/August issue. An explanation at the end of the letters section shatters "The Best Crystal Balls on the Bus" piece by telling us that the writer, Milton S. Gwirtzman, is on Jimmy Carter's staff. Then, as if to rub things in a bit, More's editors note that Gwirtzman's "involvement with Carter in no way diminishes his analysis." Sure. And perhaps Gwirtzman didn't have it in mind to butter up a few national reporters for the homestretch...
...revealing answers. But, he said with some resignation and humor, "That's Jimmy. He'll tell everything. He's come a long way being open. It may be political poison nationally, but it worked in Georgia." Stoic and cheerful as he sounded, Kirbo was a bit depressed, and back in Georgia he showed it-which was surprising...
...occasional daughter, brother or aunt, all barnstorming the country like seasoned pros, living out of suitcases, up at 5:30 a.m. and to bed at midnight, addressing the local Kiwanis Club and staging rousing rallies in shopping centers, the gallant families of Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford, doing their bit to win the election for dear...
...wearing the black beret of Prime Minister Ian Smith's security forces looked up from his post on downtown Jameson Avenue as the season's first dark rain clouds came scudding over the rooftops. "Damn," he said, scowling to his partner. "I was hoping it would hold off a bit longer. The 'terrs' [white Rhodesians' shorthand for terrorists] will be tougher than ever in the rains this year...
Alice in Wonderland is alive and well and living in Margaret Atwood's new novel. She has changed a bit: she operates under the alias Joan Foster, resides in Toronto and writes gothic romances on the sly. But she still has more identities than she knows how to handle, takes pills that make her undergo disconcerting changes of size, and gets into trouble by gazing too long into a looking glass...