Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortunate enough to have been one of the audience at the Rockwell Cage when Dr. Vannevar Bush made the statement you quoted.* I sincerely hope he is right in his optimism, but the slide rule he used for his computations must have slipped quite a bit...
...helplessly with the current; she ran aground on a bar near the island. Her four forward guns, facing the island, were useless, but her stern guns began to pour a methodical fire of 4-in. shells into the Communist positions. The shore batteries cut loose again. "It was a bit of a haze from then on," said one of the survivors...
...their nahsty damned 'owitzers blown right aht of its bloody emplacement. Sky 'igh it went, too. We must 'ave killed two or three 'undred of the bah-stads." (In London, the Admiralty later said of the Consort: "She silenced the opposition a bit...
...game will be spiced by one further bit of intelligence, the fact that the M.I.T. captain refereed the Harvard-McGill game and the crowd present was not especially pleased with all of his decisions. Consequently, feeling among the fans and possibly among the players will probably run high toward this unfortunate...
Almost all the action takes place in the Hotel Bijon, a name singularly appropriate because the proprietress, Madame Rose (Francoise Rosay), herself dabbles in stolen baubles. The Hotel Bijon isn't exactly the Waldorf of Paris--as a matter of fact, its dusty brick walls conceal quite a bit of shady activity. Daytime scenes are taken up with the stolen goods racket. I suspect the Boston censors have flourished their knives at the nighttime scenes, but not so much that the results unduly tax the imagination...