Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center of the stage -the long-winded bore, the authority, the physician, the superior competitor. How? By using stratagems of such seeming innocence and such Machiavellian obliqueness that the victim scarcely knows he has been pinked. Thus one day, playing golf with a friend, Potter asked "a bit of a favor" on the third hole. But he delayed revealing what he wanted until the 16th. By this time his companion, anxiously speculating on how many pounds-ten? 100?-Potter was going to touch him for, was dubbing every other shot. As it developed, all Potter requested was the loan...
...naturally you're waiting for my revelations about Ali and Ryan and the gang, but they were all the way they are meant to be: very-nice, and so-human, and not-a-bit-standoffish. But it was the other small people who were surprising: they too were the way they're all cracked up to be by worried mothers and column-writers. One was a girl who made her living as an extra. She had what amounted to a routine acting job-"except it's very hard to get work." This stint in Watson Rink was even duller than...
...pretty girl came up to say "Hello Henry" and then to tell us a bit about life. "I'm so cold," she complained gently. Henry put his arm over her shoulder but the insulation that kept him warm kept it from warming her. She said so, "but it's nice anyway. I get so lonely. It's nice to have someone put their arm around...
Brady obviously has quite a bit to live up to, but his alleged larceny may have given him a good start. And his statements to the press last month, upon his return showed that he has some claim for canonization...
There are some things that can be fairly easily knighted given a bit of good will on both sides. There are other causes which will take more time and fewer snap judgments. Finally there are some of the deep fundamental wrongs which can't be settled by "sit ins" or riots but can only be achieved by a sober, serious desire to work together at all ages as concerned persons who have screened their own integrity...