Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nasty Things." Battery D eyed bespectacled Captain Truman with disfavor and suspicion. He was a Baptist and a Mason. "We thought he was a bit prissy," Tommy Murphy recalled. A story, probably apocryphal, but which Battery D still tells and snickers over, was that one day Captain Truman shrilled at two AWOLs: "You spoiled our record, you nasty things...
...walked beside the car down Capitol Hill. It was a brisk, 46-minute walk and everyone made it except George Hardy, who got a stitch in his side, and "Deadman" Riley, who just got tired. The others all felt fine, although afterwards they began to stiffen up a bit, sitting around in the chill breeze...
...glasses. "I see just what expression it takes and develop that. Now this little bump here looks like a branch. Turn it around and we have a head, or a flower. But I don't want a head, a branch or a flower, so I mold it a bit"-giving the kernel a cruel squeeze-"or I may throw it away." And with an expression of critical disdain he threw it on the tablecloth...
...thought a bit of the end of it, When we started painting the town...
Party Line. Worker writers turn in their copy to half a dozen editors, known to the rest of the staff as "commissars." The city editors, Eric Bert and Joe Clark, are little more than routing clerks. The commissars censor every bit of copy, iron out minor kinks in the party line, or send the stories and headlines back to be rewritten if the facts don't fit the party's position of the day. For Worker staffers and contributors-Agnes Smedley, Rob Hall, Howard Fast et al.-the line is as inevitable and as obvious in news story...