Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...example is in order. Not long ago King Hassan of Morocco breezed into D.C. A party in his honor ruffled feathers of those on the never-ending Washington party circuit, Ear claims, because "a) (the King) didn't show; b) it was a weeny bit in the basement; and c) that romantic word (on the invitation) something like 'Casbah' actually turned out to be 'Cash Bar'. Luckily, Uncle Oscar always carries...
...same administration. He inaugurated the first negative income tax and developed the concept of revenue sharing. He has always been well respected abroad, ending the Vietnam War and opening the door to China. In terms of policy, he is a very important figure in our era and very bit as educational as other public officials routinely invited to Harvard. But secondly Nixon's visit to Harvard will be a test of how respectful Harvard students truly are of free speech. Undoubtably there will be demonstrators outside the hall, but are they open-minded enough to listen and ask meaningful questions...
...might be a little bit of a gamble to take on Greater Boston," Dixon added, "but I'm confident we can pull...
...heart had gone out of it. Derek Bok parried with Adm. Turner over Harvard's right to know what the CIA was doing on campus, and Dean Howard Hiatt took it on the chin from the faculty at the School of Public Health, who wanted to know a bit more about how things got done at their own school. The CIA gave Bok the brush-off and Hiatt settled himself down for a bruising power struggle that would determine the direction the school would take in trying to modernize itself. Still, it was late summer, and the woes of bureaucracy...
...Little Cottonwood Canyon deep in the heart of Mormon-land--that it snows a lot in Alta. So when nature proves them wrong, and when it doesn't snow, they don't say much at all. But sometimes, once in a very long while, Christmas is just a little bit too white and Cottonwood goes...