Word: iota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME cannot agree with Reader Emmett that the deletions from her letter changed its gist one jot or detracted one iota from its cogency...
Geography. Not one understood one iota of the geography books they had been reading. I have practically stopped all formal geography (of which I know nothing anyway), and we have spent the first weeks learning what north, south, east & west mean and what a map is. We are studying our town; soon we shall be able to get a faint idea of the county...
...finally decided, said Cerf in his Saturday Review of Literature column, to reinstate the poet, chiefly because: "Once begun, where can you draw the line in this sort of thing? . . . This does not mean," Cerf hastened to say, "that my abhorrence for Ezra Pound the man has abated one iota. . . ." To make assurance doubly, sure, Cerf would run a footnote characterizing Pound as "a contemptible betrayer of his country...
G.I.s were sure they had won a victory. Actually, unless the War Department had badly miscalculated the "military need," Ike Eisenhower's order did not change the situation one iota. His statement, passing the buck to theater commanders, was an evasion which G.I.s would figure out later...
...Never before, Mr. President, have I risen on the floor of the Senate to answer an attack made upon me, but never in my ten years of service in the Senate has the provocation been so great. . . . There is not one iota of truth in a single part of the statement made by Guffey. ... I do not even know Joe Pew, and never had any communication with...