Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tabloid Elmira (N.Y.) News was shutting up shop, and the publisher didn't sound a bit sorry. In his farewell Page One editorial, Robert J. Allen,* an Army flyer in World War I and a Marine flyer in No. II, heaved a luxurious sigh as he told...
...Made of lime, sugar and pisco (a white grape brandy); sometimes a bit of beaten egg white goes...
...teacher is indifferent to poetry. "This teacher is every bit as dangerous, because he has nothing at all to restrain him. ... He makes poetry yield dividends. He gives marks for it. He asks his pupils to paraphrase it. ... Ask anyone to paraphrase a poem and . . . you suggest that a poem is a sort of fancy dress for a statement that can be made equally well in plain prose...
Revolution. Despite such minor setbacks, the style revolution rolled on. It had been too carefully planned to be stopped by such molehills as unorganized scoffers or individual critics. When wartime clothing restrictions were abandoned a year ago, designers had cautiously lowered hems a bit. This excited so little interest that the $4 billion women's clothing industry, one of the biggest in the U.S., fell into a frightening slump this spring. Orders in many lines fell off as much as 60% (some of this was due to manufacturers' waiting for fabric price cuts that never came). Obviously, what...
...Queens, the Media will never set a speed record. On her maiden voyage, she made the 3,073 nautical miles from Liverpool to New York at a comfortable 185 knots in six days and 23 hours. But her skipper was satisfied. She had done splendidly, said he, "in a bit of every kind of weather...