Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within reach for a close-up shot, and Henry, a friendly sort, put an arm around her. When he put the other arm around her and started to wrestle, she looked anxiously at the keeper and asked: "Don't you think he's getting a bit rough...
...Roanoke's Larry Vinson had eliminated five rivals. His backspin was working fine, he drew his marble nicely, cleaned out the ring time after time in one turn. But on the last day, Larry's rabbit's foot failed just when he needed it most. He bit his lip, said nothing, shed not a tear...
...Paris classroom last week, a pupil scrawled a familiar bit of U.S. doggerel across the blackboard: "No more classes; no more books; no more teacher's cross-eyed looks." He was an American schoolboy, and most of his 140 classmates were Americans too. The same afternoon, wilting in the hot Paris sun, U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery spoke at exercises for the first six students to graduate from the school in seven years...
Miracle on 34th Street. A surefire, brightly cynical bit of whimsy about a man who thinks he's Santa Claus, and his effect on Manhattan's retail Christmas trade (TIME, June...
...rest. The last of the grand hotels grossed $16,500,000 last year, more than any hotel ever took in anywhere, and in spite of stiff costs it began to make a little profit. Service began to slip a bit, but terrapin and Irish golden plover was still on the menu. Anyway, Boomer had found that guests now paid more attention to who was in the floor show than to what was on the menu...