Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursuing the policy of harshness we have encountered. But it would be difficult to say who they are. There is never a cleavage in the Politburo. There are certain differences of opinion before policies are made and adopted. But as to a cleavage . . . that is a little bit beyond the scope of my imagination...
Both kinds will get plenty of chance to hear him. At 40, Yorkshireman Kell has come to the U.S. to stay. Says he: "All I could see ahead over there was the same old sort of thing. I thought I'd get out a bit and see what America might offer...
...dray, naow," said a cockney slaughterer, "at 900 pahnd in skin and shoes, 'e'd only bring 40 pahnd when 'e was boned, but on the black market 'e brings near four bob a pahnd." Customers, aware and unaware, were eating heartily. "A nice bit o' minced 'orse, with plenty of carrots and onions," said a Doncaster housewife, "and I defy anyone to turn up 'is nose...
During his long years in the cold corridors of the school's single Tudorish building, William Barber has had time to absorb the highly principled and highly pedigreed Christianity that St. Mark's preaches. Under Barber, the preaching will go on, with Barber doing a good bit of it himself at chapel services on Monday nights. The son of a Greek teacher at St. Mark's, Barber has taught Greek himself for seven years. Now, he will teach only one class. But he will go on coaching the hockey team, and every so often he will take...
...Herr, who is a bit unsympathetic with the vocally suffering, had proved one of his theories: "Now that I have successfully operated on myself ... I feel justified in making patients get up as soon as possible...