Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haughie, circumstances were a bit different. His parents had come to see the game, and "they helped me to forget--I couldn't be brooding while they were here," he says. "You have to forget, anyway. You can't go through the week with a tear still in your...
Undergraduates are normally a resilient group, but the parties and dances Saturday evening were just a bit less noisy and cheerful at the beginning of the evening. But as the night progressed, happiness returned. The calm acceptance that is the heritage of the Harvard football fan had begun to assert itself...
...Every bit Macmillan's match at making politics with peace and prosperity, the Labor Party's Hugh Gaitskell coupled pie-in-the-sky welfare promises with reasons for tax reform that came oddly from the lips of a man whose brushes with manual labor have been at best fleeting. "People making these capital gains," he had intoned, "should pay tax on them so that we who live by the sweat of our brow, or with our hands, could have it a little bit easier." In the thickening fog of oratorical battle, Labor hecklers twice howled down Tory Macmillan...
...their pains, Colonels Wilkinson and Moss were rewarded last week with orders transferring them back to the U.S. on two weeks' notice. U.S. military officials in Turkey would say only that the transfers were "for the good of the Air Force." But Colonel Moss made things a bit more explicit. Though his Air Force career was at stake, he said, he felt he had to testify in the brutality trial "to retain my self-respect...
...Hearing that, Detroit wags recalled the time when Big Bill Knudsen, G.M.'s late president, boasted to Adman Bruce Barton that a certain new-model Chevy was "almost the perfect low-priced car-and it will really become perfect next year when we make one small change." Barton bit hard. "What change?" Deadpanned Bill Knudsen: "We're just going to hang a small hammock under the chassis. Catch all the goddam parts that fall...