Word: whit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of Communist influence within the government. Said a Washington spokesman last week: "If the Guatemalans paid the United Fruit Co.'s full $16 million claim tomorrow and decorated every last United Fruit official with the Order of the Quetzal, we wouldn't be one whit less concerned about the danger of Communism in Guatemala...
...also hopelessly impractical, for, while not disturbing one whit the heavy responsibility laid on the federal government, it deprives that agency of all but a fraction of the power necessary to discharge it. One suspects that behind the Senator's oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked his wing of the GOP for years, that the amendment is simply a bigger and better version of the wild attacks on the State Department. Unable to succeed straightforwardly, Bricker and his colleagues have launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore...
...inside left Whit MacQuarrie scored the first goal at 20:50 of the first period. He picked up a loose ball about 40 feet out to the left of the cage and drove it into the upper right hand corner. Briggs was unable to touch...
...cardinals: "Really I just wanted an excuse to use those colors, and you can't give ordinary clothes that purple color without getting into a sort of false fauve manner." The fact that cardinals do not wear robes-or faces-that kind of purple troubles him not a whit...
...existence, too, has its adversities. When we saw that Claus could come down chimneys fully laden without even soiling his trousers (his manner of re-ascent has never been completely explored), and that, after visiting sancta where male feet never tread, he could continue his rounds not a whit diminished in vigor, we began to think of him as indomitable, as a sort of chubby, venerable Superman...