Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came up here to get two points, and we came away with one," Prestifilippo said. "We have to go home, regroup a little bit and next week come away with four...
Likewise, learning about America's democratic government enables immigrants to participate in the electoral process. Such knowledge about their new home empowers them; it does not undermine their native cultures one bit...
...aggrieved pose and bloviated freely, blaming the vindictive Republicans for shattering Senate comity in their hell-bent effort to destroy the President, or some such transgression. But instead he threw out the handbook. The South Dakotan stood before the cameras, blinking modestly and hunching his slight frame just a bit, and tossed lush, fragrant bouquets at the other side. "I appreciate very much Senator Lott's willingness to consider many of the concerns we had," he said of the majority leader, who had just skunked him in vote after vote. "We simply couldn't bring this matter to a successful...
...fill a shoebox. Yet that near nothingness holds many secrets. Comets are leftovers from the creation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago; they also delivered organic chemicals and water--the crucial building blocks of life--to the young Earth. Scientists would love, therefore, to get a bit of comet into the lab for analysis...
...first Pope was Pius XII. Her parents found him "a bit sour." Growing up in Lebanon, Ky., Betty Spalding went to confession, heard Mass in Latin and wore a demure chapel veil. She prayed avidly: "I was adding it up, earning heaven." In junior high school the nuns told her that John XXIII, Pius' successor, was "opening the windows of the church, and that appealed to me." Not that she would dream of contradicting a Pontiff anyway. "If the Pope said it, that was fine with me," she recalls...