Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the moderate Manchester Guardian: "The oversimplifications Mr. Wallace indulges in are dangerous because they delude people into thinking there is some magic way of getting world peace. ... It would be a change if he could forget his apocalyptic rhetoric a bit and get down to the level of mundane facts and figures with which statesmen have to deal...
Some College golfers, however, have jumped the gun with a bit of pre-season clubbing on chilly near-by links...
...Everybody who has a bit of ground in which he can sow wheat must do it," clarioned Dev. But Eire's farmers knew that, with all the good intentions in the world, they could do nothing until the rains stopped and the drying winds began to blow. "We didn't need Patrick Smith to tell us we depended on God," they said...
...bald, bearded Frenchman hunched painfully over his writing table was feeling old, ill and a bit sorry for himself. Painter Paul Cézanne had studied hard, but had he learned, at 67, to paint intelligibly? Hardly anyone thought so. The old man scrawled the question once again. "Shall I ever reach the goal so eagerly sought and so long pursued?" he wrote. "A vague feeling of discomfort persists which will not disappear until I shall have gained the harbor, that is, until I shall have accomplished something more promising than what has gone before...
...wrath floods the entire industry. "The scales have not been invented," he says, "fine enough to weigh the grain of sincerity in radio." And, "Everything in radio is as valuable as a butterfly's belch." Network vice presidents are his favorite dish. They are "a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference." Their conferences are "meetings of men who singly can do nothing, but collectively agree that nothing can be done...