Word: tidbits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shrug and folded its wings. Legs rigid, it plummeted downward, driving its talons deep into the hare's skull, killing the animal instantly. Then, poised over its prey, 3-ft. wings spread in triumph, it shrieked impatiently for its master to hurry along with its reward: a tidbit of fresh meat...
...simply could not penetrate the Keefs preconceptions. Connor admitted that the probe, in a general way, was not without merit, but he blasted Kefauver: "He asks loaded questions; he disregards facts that undermine his line of argument; he watches the morning and afternoon press deadlines and introduces a juicy tidbit at a time that defies immediate correction or refutation...
Everybody called him Ivan the Terrible, but it must have been terrible for Ivan. He had back trouble, which made him just miserable every time he had to stand up or bend over. No wonder he felt like killing people. This fascinating historical tidbit came to light when the Russians removed Czar Ivan IV (1530-84) from his Kremlin tomb last year and turned the bones over to Anthropologist-Sculptor Mikhail Gerasimov, a specialist in reconstructing physical appearance from bone structure. Gerasimov got the backache idea from studying the skeleton, has now finished two busts of the 16th century ruler...
...patriarchal palace is a dusty little compound near the lumberyards of old Stamboul, across the Golden Horn from modern Istanbul. There, Athenagoras rises at 7 for prayer, spends most of his days keeping up with a vast worldwide correspondence and seeing visitors, to whom he offers a tidbit of sickly sweet Turkish jam. Eager to prod Orthodoxy into a dialogue with other churches, Athenagoras looked forward to his meeting with the Pope. "The ice has been broken," said Athenagoras. "Soon a new era will begin in the history of Christendom...
...Pathetic" is Conant's word for most required foundation courses. Tidbit surveys, such as philosophy of education, "leave the future teacher with the most dangerous of misunderstandings: that he knows what he is talking about when, in fact, he does not." Worse, Conant found in college after college that "members of a subject-matter department (English or chemistry, for example) were totally unfamiliar with what was going on in the schools and couldn't care less." The same went for supervision of practice teaching in "even the best institutions...