Word: smidgen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...margin Pop regards as "perfick." Spacious, sportive Ma Larkin furnishes a groaning bed and board, fills her voluminous pink nylon nighties like two nudes by Rubens. Wed only in the sight of the common law. Ma and Pop have six children, only one of whom causes them a smidgen of concern...
...wife, in life and legend, is one of broadcasting's most potent forces,* but Mrs. Kathryn Murray, 50, tops them all. Not content with behind-the-scenes power, Mrs. Murray plunged into TV herself as M.C. of her husband's show, The Arthur Murray Party. Without a smidgen of experience as an entertainer, she tried her hand at songs, dances, fancy patter, pantomime, knockabout acrobatics. The result is even more phenomenal: in seven years Kathryn and the show have become such hardy TV perennials that the bills are now footed by a sponsor she is not married...
...ground inspection. It is, perhaps, asking too much to urge that the Russians be given all of our Secrets. Undoubtedly, the Russians, wily as they are, feel the same way. But it would seem that a system could be devised for inspecting nuclear power production without exposing every smidgen of the latest techniques and theories...
...Press Secretary Hagerty bounded into the converted basketball court in town, where newsmen had been standing by impatiently. The President, he said, had discussed future plans, as well as "politics generally," with Hagerty and, on the telephone, with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. But newsmen could not squeeze a smidgen more from Hagerty. Said he, darting his tongue into his cheek: "I'm merely trying to keep you informed...
...idea, 2) tickle his funnybone with satire, 3) clout him over the head with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually seem just as barbaric and outmoded as actual bloodletting does today...