Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still far from achieving it. Retreating from its great leap forward, the Central Party's resolution used the words gradual and gradually in times in 40 pages. The document was peppered with dilatory phrases: "It takes time." "We should not be in a hurry." "We should wait a bit." "There is yet insufficient experience." "Socialism must continue for a long time before we achieve Communism." "We cannot prematurely and hastily carry out a changeover." Nikita Khrushchev must have enjoyed reading all this...
...Favorites. To soften the blow a bit, the government offered a special rate of 57 pesetas to the dollar compared to the official rate of 42. But Franco seemed to be playing no favorites. Among those caught were such men as the powerful Conde de Arteche, chairman of the Banco de Bilbao, and Juan March, one of the world's richest men. Also involved were Franco-sponsored organizations, such as the giant Institute Nacional de Industria, which controls everything from airlines to steel mills...
Even the answer will leave a further mystery, Dr. Lovell admits. A universe that is still being created and that had no beginning is as hard to understand as one that "began" with a primeval atom. Creation, all at once or bit by bit, seems equally hard for scientific theory to handle. "Any cosmology," Dr. Lovell says, "must eventually move over into metaphysics...
...reason, suggests a pressagent, is that Peter Gunn is "a little bit much." The program so exaggerates traditional private-eye brouhahas that it can be taken for parody. And it is done so deadpan that it has rigor mortis of the upper...
...wonder the Bull could flick his tail at recession. The 1958 market kept climbing, not a bit disturbed by threats of war in Lebanon and Quemoy, and bad corporate news that showed a 30.5% drop in six-month earnings. The new investors were looking at other values. As steel dropped to 47.1% of capacity in April, Bethlehem Steel, the No. 2 producer, failed by 8? to make its 60? first-quarter dividend. But Bethlehem confidently paid the dividend, and the stock climbed 5⅛ points...