Word: whit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current matter whether Sacco 'Vanzetti were, in fact, guilty or innocent. No matter what the reality behind that trial, the crimes of the American government are beyond dispute. And if evidence should one day appear indicating the guilt of Sacco and Vanzetti after all, that would not change one whit the fact of American intolerance in the twenties. Racism and repression existed--beyond any question of the trial of two anarchists. These are the crimes, and they are incontestable, no matter who fired the shots...
...School came on strong in the first five minutes of the game as Whit Morrow of the B-School was first to score. The conversion was unsuccessful giving the B-School a 4-0 advantage...
...Basement Room", also chronicled a young boy's encounter with passions beyond his ken, with class conflicts in the background. Reed's film was cinematically more extravagant than The Go-Between, and it unashamedly exploited the use of subjective interludes within its plot structure. But it was not a whit less edifying for that. Reed was simply unafraid of responding heartfully to a tale that cried out for it--unlike the more virtuosic Messrs, Losey and Pinter...
None of which bothers Muhammad Ali one whit: "Humph! Bob Foster, a li'I ol' 188-pounder. Now ain't that something! I wouldn't even spar with a man that size. But the press and the bookies are shoutin' 'Who-e-e-e! Joe Frazah knocked him out, knocked him dead!' What they should have done is look what I did to Oscar and what Oscar did to Joe Frazier. All Oscar did was to knock Joe Frazier down twice in their first fight and then whip his face so bad that his eyes were swollen closed. And when...
There the name was on the list of Cambridge University graduates, sandwiched between Vaux, J.E.G., and Walker, J.N.G.: Wales, H.R.H. Prince of -the first heir to the British crown ever to earn a university degree. No one seemed one whit prouder than Lord Butler, master of Trinity College, where the royal scholar won a bachelor's degree with honors in history. "We think it was rather remarkable that he could get a good degree," said Lord Butler, "considering all his other duties...