Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaming. He was handed a veterinarian's hypodermic syringe-a horrible weapon with a needle as thick as a pencil and huge glass cylinder full of a gummy looking red fluid. He prodded the recumbent reporter. Vaccaro winced and the President said, "This won't hurt a bit, Tony...
...Threshold. When the speeches began, the nonpartisan bonds slipped a bit, and there were sounds very like a muffled boom. Cried Massachusetts' Governor Robert Bradford, who returned from a vacation in Maine for the celebration: "He's only on the threshold of an even greater career." Massachusetts' Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a leading candidate for "favorite son" himself, declared: "If he wants more, the people of Massachusetts will be with...
Edith Halpert shies at selling her best finds to private collectors, lovingly hides them away in the old Connecticut farmhouse where she spends her summers. "These things are not cute a bit," she says proudly, "and they're not quaint either. They're art. The one quality they all share is design, you see, and that's what contemporary artists emphasize too. Our modern painters have learned a lot from these folk artists...
...World. Said Amedeo Panizzi, 71, just out after a month's illness: "That bit of news gave me more pleasure than getting out of that hot, hard bed." Said Attilio Bertini: "It's good of America to help. The ships coming back to us is the best thing. They can bring raw materials for our industries, and we can put our shoulders to the wheel. But we hope those ships will never bring war materials." Renato de Santis, a Communist, said (and many non-Communists agreed): "The Americans will make us give something in exchange. They treat...
Sister Clodagh (Deborah Kerr) is appointed Superior; as it turns out, she is a bit too young and imperious for the job. Sister Briony (Judith Furse) is taken along for her medical knowledge. Sister Honey (Jenny Laird) is a gentle creature, a tonic for jangled nerves. Sister Philippa (Flora Robson) is responsible for the garden. Sister Ruth (Kathleen Byron) is a jagged-voiced, quarrelsome neurotic; it is hoped that the drastic change of surroundings will do her good...