Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live in a tiny, weatherbeaten shack back of the sand dunes, and we can peek at the ocean by stretching our necks a bit. Our neighbors are a motley crew: mostly men who seek only escape from their pasts, their responsibilities, or their sins. Whatever the reason, they've found some sort of peace here on the beach. Until we began ?o circulate among them with our books and magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger...
...each other and we even have sessions of discussion on topics of interest. Some of the old rascals have scrimped and saved enough to get battery radios and now keep up with current events and national issues with as much interest as you do. The discussions sometimes get a bit gusty, but I'd rather listen in on some of these sessions than sit in on The Pursuit of Happiness round table which LIFE ran. These people are really pursuing happiness. They are trying to get the last drop of pleasure out of life. Yet they have changed their...
...rich was the lode that drilling was done only where ore could be reached readily. One of the best deposits was found by accident when a new-type drill was tested at the Burnt Creek camp site. The drill bit down into the earth, struck rich ore at two feet, was still in it when drilling was stopped at 367 feet...
...friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term "liberation" instead of the "invasion" of Europe, and a Helen Hokinson New Yorker cartoon in which a bewildered matron returns two fat volumes to her bookshop, saying: "I guess I bit off more 'Robert E. Lee' than I could chew...
Weiss and Captain Phil Potter made the other scores in Tuesday's 3-0 win. Things are expected to be a bit tougher this Friday, when the booters travel, to West Point to face a traditionally rough Cadet team...