Word: tidbits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tasty Tidbit...
...story might have been brushed aside as another propaganda tidbit, but the official Nationalist Central News Agency quickly verified it. What's more, claimed Taipei, the guerrillas tied up 100,000 Communist troops for three months, inflicted 700 casualties, shot down a Red reconnaissance plane, and engaged in a widespread campaign of sabotage...
Emerging from the White House last week after a foreign policy talk with President Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson had a tidbit for waiting reporters: he is considering running next year for the Illinois Senate seat now held by Republican Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen...
...replies, with regret he had not realized he felt. "can be counted on one hand, and their suffering is without end. They are mirrors which reflect God's light upon us other wretches, groping in the dark." She looks at him as if he were an exotic tidbit-say, a sugar-coated bedbug...
Even Winchell agrees that the old drive is gone. After 40 years of incessant tidbit collecting, he is too jaded to bother. Last week his copy read as if the pufflicty seekers had landed their puffs intact. "In my younger days." said the columnist, "when I used to hustle, it was a lot more exciting. Now the copy comes in by the bushel, and I sit around filling up the wastebasket and staring at the ceiling waiting for an idea to come...