Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, over half favor "right-to-work" laws. Probably influenced by revelations of union corruption, and the huge amount of anti-union propoganda distributed in the recent Congressional campaign, a significant group of "moderate liberals" have apparently joined the "conservatives" in their sympathy for this bit of legislation...
...version is slangy, a bit hammy in spots, and not likely to strain the minds of readers. Highet hopes that it would have pleased Menander, "who loved people, like Shakespeare and Moliere. and so transformed Greek comedy from its original fantasy into reality...
...future was the latest step in a spectacular career. The unknown son of a small Hamburg book publisher, Springer brooded out the war in the parks of Hamburg (a respiratory ailment kept him out of military service), decided that the traditionally dark, hearty brew of German journalism needed a bit of tang and a fleck of foam. He founded his empire in 1946 on the radio weekly Hör zu! (Listen), is now sole owner of three magazines (and one-third owner of two more), ranging from the gossipy Das Nvue Blatt to the Scientific Kristall, three Hamburg dailies...
Though smaller (60 Moscow newsmen, 65 correspondents in Russia and ten abroad), Izvestia is every bit as profitable as big brother: on a recent visit to this country, Assistant Editor A. G. Baulin confided to a U.S. publisher that the paper reaps an annual profit of $10 million, clears 2? on every copy it sells...
...Joseph Alsop to the Signet Society. At that time, "the older member of the partnership" as he styles himself, compared the nations of the West to Leonidas' troops at Thermopylae and suggested that they "comb their golden hair in the sunlight and prepare to die bravely." A little bit of this sort of Everett Dirksen brand eloquence goes an awfully long...