Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is the worry around this company town that Jimmy Carter is just a bit too ready to accept second place, or, to use his words, "to adjust to the new realities." There are new realities about American power and resources and those of its adversaries and about this nation's ability to manage events in the world, but once you start to turn down your expectations and act unwilling or unable to sustain influence around the globe, the slide is hard to stop...
Elizabeth got a little bit better than she gave
...largesse was just a trifle embarrassing since the Queen got a little bit better than she gave. Her official gifts to her hosts in Kuwait, Bah rain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman were sterling silver salvers engraved with a picture of the royal yacht Britannia. The Guardian estimated that the salvers probably cost between $4,000 and $6,000 apiece, adding somewhat cattily that Britain's "balance of payments on the transaction looks extremely healthy." Still, as the paper observed, "it's the thought that counts...
Indeed the Administration was savoring a rare bit of encouraging news from Iran. After four months of revolution that cut its export production from 5.5 million barrels a day to zero, the country's 27,000 drillers, engineers, technicians and other oil workers began returning to their jobs. In the fields of Marun and Ahwax Asmari, in the refineries of Abadan, and at the pumping center of Ahvaz, precious petroleum is beginning to flow anew as the industry struggles to resume limited export production...
...crippled owner (Pat Hingle); he tells a fat young waitress (Stephanie Faracy) that she is doomed forever to spinsterhood. By the time that Teddy departs, his victims have been stripped of their selfdelusions. Meanwhile, the audience has been treated to a headache-inducing avalanche of shouting matches and two-bit catharses...