Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Well, I think we've done about enough for the rest of the world and Europe," the agent said. "I see where we've spent $20 billion on them since the war ended, and they're not a damned bit better off than when we started. It's about time we used our money to do things in this country...
...fortunes up again, was still as surly as ever. As he stalked from an elevator in Washington's Carlton Hotel, he encountered a waiting newsman, who observed: "You must be very happy, Mr. Lewis." John L. growled: "I'm afraid you're stretching your imagination a bit...
...Uvalde, Tex. pecan farm last week, "Cactus Jack" Garner, Roosevelt's old Vice President, dropped a bit of news calculated to discourage publishers, biographers, and ghostwriters. Not only had he decided not to write his memoirs, he had dumped the letters and records of his 38 years in Washington into a big bonfire and burned them...
...American finals at Wimbledon (see above) were just one more indication that England's guests this summer were making themselves right at home. To a country which prides itself on taking its games more seriously than its battles, the situation was beginning to look a bit too one-sided. The London Evening Standard's Columnist Hylton Cleaver seriously suggested last week that all foreigners, including horses, be barred from British sport for two years so that the home product might recover its lost confidence. The Observer's Editor Ivor Brown was more philosophical about...
Sometimes Herald readers try to pin Dan Poling down on his exact shade of belief. In the current issue someone asked flatly whether he is a modernist or a fundamentalist. After hedging a bit, he blithely suggested that perhaps he is a "gentle fundamentalist." Dr. Dan has little time for pondering the subtleties of his religion -he is much too busy working...