Word: whit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...racial intolerance on the West Coast had abated not a whit...
...charm. Three or four critics swap frank opinions about a current bestseller, while the author sits by and takes it. Then the author gets a chance to talk back. Participants in last week's recordings: the New York Herald Tribune's Lewis Gannett, Story magazine's Whit Burnett, American Magazine's John K. M. McCaffery (who acts as m.c.) and Author Richard Wright (Black Boy -TIME, March...
...French relations, queasy from the first week of the invasion of North Africa, queasier since the liberation of France, had been settled not a whit by the full story of the failure of Franklin Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle to meet at Algiers (TIME...
...American romantics like Walt Whit man have cried that democratic Americans "rise at once against the never-ending audacity of elected persons." But the U.S., says Brogan, "was made by politicians" - types who readily indulged in romantic rhetoric but were basically "matter-of-fact men . . . with a clear head for bookkeeping." "To have created a free government . . . without making a sacrifice of adequate efficiency or of liberty is the American achievement...
...flaming fight for Fondouk Pass, the Division chaplain came down, offered Hoffmann the post of assistant Division chaplain. This would bring him a step-up in rank, and there wasn't so much ducking German 88s. Father Hoffmann's rejoinder was that he was interested not a whit in rank, that his place was with the boys of the ist Battalion. He stayed with us. Wherever the going was toughest on the front line, you'd see Hoffmann strolling along with a shovel. With this he'd scoop out a little depression and then get horizontal...