Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aghast at what was happening, henchmen of ex-Premier Azana and other leaders who made Spain a Republic, began to do their bit by bursting into polling places and smashing voting urns amid a welter of trampled ballots. Even the anti-Socialist but definitely Republican party of Premier Don Diego Martinez Barrios grew nervous as it began to seem that the women's vote might give victory to extreme Right parties loyal to "His Most Catholic Majesty." As tension grew the Mayor of Badajos was stabbed to death by poll pug-uglies, but not until he had fired...
...less able and astute than Ion, was forced to resign. Advised by Rumania's three Regents, Boy King Mihai appointed as Premier the National Peasant Party leader, chipper little Professor luliu Maniu, who arrived at the Royal Palace with his new Cabinet list scribbled on a crumpled bit of paper, exclaiming "Here it is!" (TIME...
...experimental subjects he had his choice of Mrs. Blair, two students. He rejected all three, picked himself. A spider bit his little finger. A sharp pain shot through his hand, quickly spread up to his shoulder. Violent abdominal cramps doubled him up. His blood pressure plummeted. Gasping with pain, Professor Blair insisted on having his heart action recorded on a cardiograph before he would take narcotics. Two days in a hospital gave him time to reflect on the "black widow's" virulency. He has not yet analyzed its poison, but is sure it is not comparable to any other...
...event of the Harvard-Yale football game in 1929 brought out a rather startling bit of detective work on the part of Cantabrigians, or rather on the part of Bob Lampoon. That was the time when a very valuable eight-foot section of the famous Yale fence mysteriously disappeared from Pachs Studio in New Haven, on the Saturday before the game. It was recovered by its rightful owners, however, on the eve of the classic battle...
...able to put things over that no one else would have a chance at getting away with that makes her what she is. I was speakin' a little while ago with some friends down in New Orleans and I asked them if they liked songs that were a bit--well you know what I mean. They said they didn't like 'em so well, but when I asked them about Miss West, they said they thought that she was just swell. Yes, she sure is an amazin' person...