Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...falter was West Virginia's Mary Conley, 12, who wanted to win so desperately that she muffed an easy word: desperately. (She made it "desparately.") The official pronouncer tried to soothe jangled nerves: "Relax, don't get excited. Have some fun." After that, things calmed down a bit, as contestants tripped on the tricky and the tough ones: remuneration, victuals, catarrh, integrity, censure, subtle, vaudeville, ukulele, bilious, ecstasy, granary, paraphernalia, hybrid, corollary, auricle, pugnacity, awry, diocese, quay, colossal, tutelage, idiosyncrasy, fuchsia, corroboration, rhinoceros, dysentery, desiccate, scintillate, proselyting, bellicose, knave, sarsaparilla...
...supporting this major bit of tradition, the undergraduates, aided and abetted by the CRIMSON, beat the inevitable tattoo on the hapless skull of the H.A.A. The subject? Ticket distribution, of course. From the first game, when it was claimed that non-University personnel sat in cheering section seats, to the last, when inept distribution of tickets was alleged, the Athletic Association was on the receiving end of a steady drum-fire of adverse publicity...
Shtykov tells this story on himself: "When I was a boy, I was known as the worst boy in town. I used to bite people. One day my old grandmother was sitting weaving a sandal. Suddenly I bit her. She threw me over her knees and beat me with the sandal until my backside ran red with blood. Then I never bit anybody any more. I became the best boy in town...
Anne Campbell, a friendly lady with grey-streaked hair, admits that sometimes her stuff gets "a bit corny." But she works hard over her verses, laboriously pecking them out a month in advance on her typewriter. Wherever she goes, her notebook goes with her; sometimes friends find her interrupting a conversation to write down some idea for a verse ("I'd like to sweep my soul in spring, And let the sunshine flood my brain"). Her verses pay her $10,000 a year, are syndicated in 30 U.S., Canadian and British papers, and draw about 100 fan letters...
...bit of evidence came in when the strength of the sun's magnetic field was measured. It turned out to be closely proportionate to the earth's, allowing for the sun's greater mass and slower turning. But two observations are not enough to base a general law on; they might be mere coincidence...