Word: nit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cocksure in his position as boss of the nation's biggest, toughest union, President James Riddle Hoffa of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters cared not a nit about the 1958 order handed down by Washington's Federal District Judge F. Dickinson Letts. That order, arising from a suit against Hoffa by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, placed the racket-ridden, goon-directed union under the supervision of a three-member board of court-appointed monitors. But Hoffa blithely declared that the monitors' recommendations were purely advisory, ignored them completely ("O.K., you've advised me; I reject...
...rest of this elegantly furnished, tastefully Metrocolored film, in which director Jean (A Certain Smile) Negulesco has tried to turn Nancy Mitford's nit-witty high-society farce (TIME, Oct. 15, 1951) into a conventional comedy, develops into a fairly funny, mildly sophisticated what-is-it, rather like an interpolation of The Diary of a Chambermaid with the last six books of the Odyssey...
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George Harrington led Crimson scorers with 13 points and was perhaps the best defensive player on the court. Chevalier followed Loughery for the NIT-aspiring Eagle five, sinking five baskets, and Donohue was runner-up on the varsity with eight points. The Crimson's record is now 7-8, and B.C. has won 13 while losing only four...
...nitpicker is "an incompetent supervisor who generally knows little or nothing about what he is reviewing, but feels that, in order to appear deserving of his position, he ought to criticize something." Having stated this definition. Author Leonard Drohan sets out to harpoon the nit of wit among civil servants and middleweight army brass at a Government bureau, a task about as difficult as shooting a whale in a swimming pool. But Drohan, who has worked in the U.S. civil service off and on since 1942, gets tangled in his unreeling novel and goes down with his quips. Spoofing government...