Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference: "I would hope for a bettering of the atmosphere between the East and the West ... I am trying to do my best to see whether we can't bring about a somewhat better situation in the relations between the two, and maybe he can learn a little bit more about our country, as certainly I can about...
Balanced Books. In Los Angeles, police searched for a man who held up a Salvation Army store, growled at his victim: "I've donated to the Salvation Army quite a bit. Now give me all the bills you have...
Shambling through downtown streets like a man in plowed ground, leathery little Walter Prescott Webb looks every bit his part: a shrewd real estate trader in Austin. Texas. But Walter Webb, raised in the alkali flats of West Texas, schooled in the saddle, and for 40 years a professor at the University of Texas, is also his generation's foremost philosopher of the frontier, and the leading historian (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers) of the American West. At 71, he has been made the hero of a sort of plainsman's festival of letters-a collection...
...their five children, aged 4 to 15. Grandma Gruwell always set a good table. This time she served home-canned beets, but explained at the dining table: "I didn't can these myself. I got them from a friend, and they taste to me like they need a bit more vinegar...
...production of Peter Pan are an especial challenge since the script calls for seven different scene changes. However, William D. Roberts has provided some sparkling and highly imaginative ones for Group 20, complete with toadstool benches and a foldaway bed. Perhaps such a complicated show technically is a bit ambitious for a stage without a curtain. All set changes must be made by hand, and are, therefore, unduly long...