Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rabbi Isaac Halevi Herzog, who talks with a bit of a brogue picked up during 21 years in Ireland (eleven of them as Chief Rabbi), flew to the U.S. as Chief Rabbi of Israel, to help with the $250 million fund-raising campaign of the United Jewish Appeal...
Like many a Harvard tradition, Class Day's origin cannot be specifically dated, and its various features grew into fashion bit by bit over a considerable period of time. "We suspect that the origin of the literary exercises on Class Day," James Russell Lowell wrote in 1874, "may be traced by no doubtful inference to an attempt of the Overseers, beginning in 1754 and renewed at intervals for some ten years, to improve the elocution of the students by requiring the public recitation of dialogues translated out of Latin into English." Lowell was, however, evidently unfamiliar with the diary...
...Bunnies grabbed at their last chance, and doubles by whit Calkins and Fabe Bradbury drove in the fifth and last Leverett tally. Don Hare, of the Hutch, made the only other extra base bit of the game, a triple...
...hours without a break, and much of the time without lights, the Consort's surgeon tended the wounded in a wardroom littered with bits of human tissue and bloodstained clothing. The wounded were lined up on deck waiting to receive treatment; Petty Officer Harry Greening stood patiently at the end of the line, with an injured hand. The Red fire got hotter. Greening moved up: "Excuse me, sir, but I think I ought to get looked after a bit sooner now. I've been hit again." He was; his kneecap had been shot away...
...Voice of the Dogs. With this bit of satire, the Moscow Circus last week redeemed itself from grievous sins. Six weeks ago the unsmiling men who watch over the Russians' leisure hours had complained that the circus dodged ideology and served up too much fun. Most harshly criticized were the clowns. Their antics, said the weekly Soviet Art sternly, lacked "ideology, optimism and Soviet purpose...