Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AMHERST, Mass.--The prognosis on the Harvard Basketball team's facelift operation will have to be delayed just a bit...
Lawton said it is difficult to estimate how much money this rule will save. "Every little bit helps," he added...
...measure the Kennedy feeling has sensed it beneath the surface. The Senator these days seems almost as much a captive of the legend as the man who is exploiting it. He rides along with relish. But he also is driven to keep up with the legend, build it a bit...
...Cabinet (James Schlesinger), says Harris, required a bit of educating. "In our original days." says she, "he addressed me regularly as 'young lady,' in a tone that I did not find necessarily overwhelming. Now he says 'Pat' or 'Madame Secretary.' " Schlesinger was similarly given to irritating Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps by calling her "lass," a practice he has also abandoned. The Green Book, the Social List of Washington, maintains extraordinarily strict rules. Separated couples like White House Aide Hamilton Jordan and his wife are excised from The Green Book by the register's mistress, Jean Shaw Murray, daughter...
...handle the linguistic problem of what to call the person with whom one's daughter lives? "Lover" is too archaically lubricious by a shade or two. "Roommate" sounds like a freshman dorm. "Bedmate" is too sexually specific, but "friend" is too sweetly platonic. "Boyfriend" and "girlfriend" are a bit adolescent. "Partner" sounds as if they run a hardware store together. The Census Bureau calls them "Partners of the Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters" or PossLQs. Mrs. Billie Jenkins, an elegant hostess who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, has developed a rather sweet technique for inviting living-together couples...