Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This statement was a bit on the optimistic side, but it seemed to point up an important (though generally disputed) truth: the danger of war has not much to do with good or ill feeling between nations. For example, the chance of war-within-five-years between the U.S. and Russia was probably greatest during the era of good feeling in 1944-45, when the U.S. was making concessions which, if extended as the Russians tried to extend them, would have placed Europe and North China in Soviet hands. If the U.S. had waked up to confront Soviet power...
...shot Benito Mussolini. The tyrannicide turned out to be a tall (6 ft.), sallow, jowly bookkeeper called Walter Audisio. As he mounted the platform before a Communist mass meeting in the ruins of Rome's Basilica of Constantine, clutching a bunch of red carnations, he bit his lips to keep them from trembling...
...stock of young hill sheep (those which graze on the uplands and are later sent to the lowlands to fatten). In the lowlands 1,000,000 head had been lost. To wool-weaving, meat-hungry Britain that meant another crisis. The people were going to need every bit of stoicism they could muster...
...comedian, visited Indianapolis in his camel's hair coat, dropped in on an old sparring-partner-turned-evangelist, was shortly lifting his voice to lead 5,000 people at Cadle Tabernacle through Rock of Ages and There Is No Night There. Explained Max: "There's a little bit of good...
...previous high). On the basis of farmers' planting plans, said the Government, corn and other grain crops would also be huge-depending on the weather. Despite this talk of bumper crops, grain prices steadied at week's end, even rose a bit. Traders hoped that, with most other nations short of grains, the U.S. would continue its heavy exporting for a year, anyway...