Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark Clifford had talked to Steelman, who talked to Secretary of Commerce Harriman and Economist Edwin Nourse. Steelman, with economists, retired behind the closed door. An Administration official sighed: "I'm afraid the President went a bit...
With the wedding only a fortnight away, everybody was beginning to get a bit jittery. To a friend last week, Princess Elizabeth confessed that she was "already frightened at the thought of walking up the aisle." However, Elizabeth's sister Margaret, undaunted, confided that she herself means to be married before long. Palace spokesmen were quick to deny all rumors. But after an engagement party at Giro's last week, one sharp-eyed newsman was ready to swear he had seen Princess Margaret and Philip's first cousin, the 28-year-old Marquess of Milford Haven, holding...
...bought the furnishings of Zhukov's office (desk, chairs, lamps) for 9,500 pesos ($190). A still-shiny 1942 Studebaker brought only 100,000 pesos ($2,000), half the going black market price. One reason for low prices: in the auctioneer's showroom, the furnishings looked a bit shoddy...
Rainfall that bit a regional high of ten inches proved unmanageable to Cambridge street drains elogged with fallen leaves. Houses reported cellar conditions ranging from dampened to partially flooded...
...recent issues. The exception, "Song of a Young Girl," by Alan H. Friedman, is a quite detestable piece of banality. between lines like "I want to die" and "Mother will want carrots" repeated each three or four times with slight variations, comes "slashed wrists under the bedcovers." This bit of unexplained neuroticism is not worthy of the generally mature Advocate, and can hardly be considered seriously as a poem...