Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee turned up a juicy bit. Russia, it found, had refused to return, or pay for, the 95 ships lent to her during the war, despite repeated requests from the State Department. Roaring mad, the committee threatened to subpoena Secretary of State Marshall to explain...
...Russian members of the Commission, promptly sought to divert the Commission's attention from the neighboring countries to Greece's tragic internal situation. The five Leftists, condemned by Greek Army court-martial of plotting rebellion against the King's Government, looked like the perfect bit of drama to accomplish just that (though they were in no way different from 121 Leftists executed before them, or the 46 scheduled to be executed after them...
...equipment is coming in bit by bit," Dwyer relates, "and we are giving service as it is available." While predicting another batch of satisfied applicants around March 1, Dwyer makes no promises for any service before April, when he expects to have received the required apparatus...
...cinema is concerned. One of the more minor entries in the life after death derby is "The Cockeyed Miracle," into which somebody lured Keenan Wynn and Frank Mergan. The supposedly whimsical situations that were only mildly funny back in the days of "Topper" are beginning to age just a bit. No longer is unchecked mirth provoked by the familiar business of having characters invisible to their fellows on the screen, yet conveniently apparent to the audience, walking through walls and evening thunderstorms. All this is involved in a trail tale about an old gentle man who dies and insists upon...
...whole idea of "Constituencies" and "issues" may seem a bit foreign to the Harvard way of carrying on politics. But the idea of expanding student participation in student affairs has been the driving force behind the new constitution. The chances for its success lie in the ability of the men of future Councils to capture the imagination of the College. It appears that the new structure of the Council will not accomplish this alone. It remains for better publicity and the unfettered workings of the democratic system to reunite the undergraduates and the Student Council into a working team...