Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trade. In London, Mahmud Ali, arrested for assaulting Abdul Matlie, explained to police: "We had a quarrel over a girl and he bit my thumb. So I bit off his nose...
...before, Medina peremptorily ordered them to "sit down," and had marshals see that they complied. "Your field day is over," Medina snapped. In Manhattan's Federal Court, the eleven defendants (accused of conspiracy to teach the violent overthrow of the U.S.) looked stunned. Even the lawyers seemed a bit subdued...
...37th year in Paraguay's remote Chaco, Texas-born George Lohman was slowing up a bit. His doctors had warned him about his heart and blood pressure, and had told him to stop riding. Last week, 59-year-old Ranchero Lohman was bossing his 960,000-acre cattle empire, Red Wells, from a veranda rocker...
Among the other countries whose Catholics have made claims for a cardinal is the Belgian Congo, with more than 4,000,000 Catholics and 28 apostolic dioceses. Said the Congo's Apostolic Delegate to a friend recently: "I wouldn't be a bit surprised if a Negro bishop made his appearance to get his red hat at the next consistory...
...Notaplace, get it?" he chuckled to his wife Eva-though with a sinking heart, because he knew that poor Eva, whose life depended on a well-ordered battery of labor-saving devices, was probably not going to relish the simple life of Utopia one bit. Only what she and Joe took to be the advancing shadow of World War III had scared her into agreeing to pull up her bourgeois roots and join him in the new colony being formed on a New England mountaintop...