Word: whit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long-awaited merger bill was finally completed by a Senate Military Affairs subcommittee. But it advanced the prospects of merger not one whit...
...Yelling on the Fairground." Blum was helped not a whit by Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who tactlessly made explicit what everyone knew was implicit in the Blum mission-the contention that unless France got U.S. aid she would likely turn to Communism. Said Bidault: if France does not get a big loan "we would almost inevitably be compelled to organize our economic policy in other directions." The world knew "other directions" meant Moscow-ward...
...cannot sympathize with all the breast-beating and crying of mea culpa over our use of the atomic bomb. Granted that it is a weapon sufficiently terrible to make the abolition of war advisable, is its use one whit worse than the piecemeal destruction of cities and civilian centers by bombing and fire raids...
...whit disturbed, Attlee doodled diligently during the speeches. Afterward he and Bevin went out together. Their destination: the Soviet Embassy, to drink Russia's health in vintage vodka, celebrating the 28th anniversary of the October Revolution...
Within three years, the Trollopes were back in England, so destitute that they could hardly buy shoes for their five children; "Trollope's Folly" remained standing until 1881, becoming successively the home of the Ohio Mechanics Society and a popular bawdyhouse. No whit discouraged, Thomas Trollope set to work erecting a new folly - this time, an eight-volume encyclopedic history of the world's monasteries and convents, "with all their orders and subdivisions." The family began to sicken and starve. Frances Trollope decided that only she could save...