Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nice to have you back, Winnie!" someone shouted. "He's getting a bit old -oughter keep his trap shut!" growled a waterfront voice. Up piped a soldier: "He's done a damned good job for us in America, almost as good as he did during the war." A dockhand yelled: "Chuck him in the sea, the old bastard...
...wanted to bet five pounds to four on Oxford and got no takers. A radio blared. Said Gus: "The boat race, it's dying out, that's wot it is. ... Trouble is everyone goes for football matches 'n dog racing wot they can 'ave a bit of a bet on." Actually the crowds were as big as ever, and grateful for the outing, but some of the old drink-it-up spirit was gone. People generally stayed as sober as their austerity clothes...
...America's most distinguished newspaper" bought space in other Manhattan dailies last week to do a bit of bragging, in bigger type than its editorial department ever uses: THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY CIRCULATION HAS PASSED 1,000,000. The Times is now the seventh biggest Sunday paper in the land.* The Times could not refrain from pointing out, in its best morning-coat fashion, the difference between itself and other members of the Big Boys' club. It had reached its new high, said the Times, "without comics or other extraneous appeals...
Thirty-two other veterans of World War II who left Kokomo before they finished school will get diplomas too. School Superintendent C. V. Haworth, winking a bit at the rules, figures that the knowledge the boys picked up at war is at least the equivalent of a high-school education...
There was one huge hitch-nobody could go outside the Western Hemisphere just for fun. Many a country, notably Great Britain and Switzerland, wanted dollar-laden tourists. And Eire was still a little bit of tourist heaven. But food supplies were still too short everywhere, hotel and transportation facilities too cramped to accommodate a horde of tourists. People with "good and sufficient" reasons-businessmen going after business, students going to foreign schools, people who wanted to visit relatives-had little trouble getting passports for Europe, Asia, Africa. The U.S. Department of State, swamped with 1,000 passport applications...