Word: bitches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cryptic figures written on the inside cover are not constructive criticism. Despite their tremendous pressure for time, graders should comment on exams--telling students what they have done wrong and how they can tackle their errors. Coupled with expanded office hours and discussion in sections,--History 61 holds fine "bitch sessions" in which instructors and students hash over examinations--such comments could put a lot of wavering students back in business. As long as the college gives so much weight to its exams, the student ought to know as much as he can about how he is hitting them...
...were granted a special audience. Said Armstrong, before leaving for northern Italy, France and the U.S.: "The people everywhere has been wonderful." How did his reception in Europe this year compare with 14 years ago? "I didn't have my thermometer," beamed Satchmo, "but they was both a bitch...
Redheaded Use, also known as the Bitch of Buchenwald, whose life sentence for participating in the management of the concentration camp had been reduced to four years "for lack of evidence" by a U.S. Army board of review (TIME, Oct. 4, 1948), had reached the end of her prison term at Landsberg. She had, it seemed, managed to keep busy during her stay in stir. She declined to discuss the bastard child to whom she gave birth two years ago in prison, but showing off her fairly fluent English, she told reporters that she had been writing her memoirs...
Some sturdy old farmers belittled the whole affair-"bitch witches" sneered one; "get her a man and the wench'll settle down," laughed another. Oddly enough, those who had expressed their skepticism were among the next to be accused. Named among the new witches were John Procter, who had cured his maid's fits by plumping her down at a spinning wheel and threatening a thrashing if she stirred from it, and Martha Cory, a hearty matron who had rashly asserted she didn't believe in witches. ("Look!" screamed one of the girls at church service, "there...
Diversion. In Harrah, Okla., R. A. Beal complained that chicken thieves used a handsome bitch to lure his watchdog off duty...