Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ulatistas had plenty of fight. "Nada nos atajard!" (Nothing will stop us!) screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...
...time for businessmen to reduce prices? It certainly is, said Jay D. Runkle, chairman of the National Retail Dry Goods Association last week. At the National Marketing Conference in St. Louis, Runkle advised: prices should be reduced "item by item, bit by bit, whenever and wherever possible...
Half a Loaf. In Chicago, M. J. Lovell, director of the National Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers, bit his' lip and reported that pajama sales average only half a pajama per man per year - a situation he described as "inadequate...
Department stores were still waiting for the Easter rush. Dollar sales were still above last year (by about 5%), but unit sales had slipped alarmingly. And the $372 million slump (10%) in charge accounts between Dec. 31 and Jan. 31 had been a good bit more than seasonal. Merchants were worried...
That worthy was chased from the ice at game's end beneath a barrage of beer cans from the arrogant faus for his efforts, which were a bit dubious from Harvard's point of view...