Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible to be a little bit pregnant, but citizens of San Francisco can now get a little bit married. Last week the city's board of supervisors voted unanimously to adopt a law that officially recognizes the unions of live-in lovers, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Mayor Art Agnos has pledged to sign the bill, which permits couples who have agreed to share basic living expenses to register their "domestic partnerships" at the county clerk's office in a manner similar to filing a marriage license...
...factories and other work units was piled in the open. Nearby, garbage rotted in the morning sun, and by midafternoon, the temperature often topped 90 degrees F. City sanitation workers threaded their way through the clusters of protesters to pick up the bulk of the garbage, but a good bit got left behind...
When investigators asked, Truitt denied that he had a homosexual relationship with Hartwig. He said they were best friends, who, as teetotalers, did not mingle with the hard-drinking sailors and as a result got "razzed" a bit. Kubicina similarly denied that her brother was homosexual or had ever shown signs of any suicidal despair. Said she: "My brother died a hero. Now they're making him out to be a homicidal, suicidal maniac. It's incredible, these bizarre tales...
...some of the gushing is getting out of hand. The most common bit of mush, endlessly repeated, whether the reporting is from China or the Soviet Union or Lithuania, is that once the genie of freedom is out of the bottle it can never be put back in. This is rank sentimentalism. The idea that somehow, if people ) have tasted freedom, the taste cannot be wrung out of them is a fallacy so large it is embarrassing just to hear it. Think only of this century. Russia tasted freedom in February 1917 and by October had lost...
...still unmatched for comprehensiveness and accuracy, and the magazine's personality pieces retain a healthy edge of skepticism. Moreover, some staffers believe the old TV Guide, with its rather stodgy format, may have been due for rejuvenation. Yet that sober, even-tempered tone of voice always provided an important bit of ballast for a business fraught with glitter and hype. The danger is that when the current make-over is finished, one of the TV industry's watchdogs will wind up as just another part of the show...