Word: betwixt
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...Betwixt and between, Berger-Crabb is a spellbinding storyteller with a fine feel for frontier manners and morals and for fascinating Indian lore. And why didn't the Sioux scalp Custer? Jack Crabb knows (because he was there): Custer was getting bald...
...Cellar. Trumpeter Wingy Manone got the audience of 1,800 tapping their feet with a blistering Tailgate Ramble. Trumpeter Billy Butterfield chimed in with a sweet and solid delivery of Singing the Blues. Crosby led ten enlistees through a lively, give-and-go session of Royal Garden Blues. But betwixt and between, le jazz hot tended to run lukewarm, and when it was over at 3:20 a.m., the Great Moment had never quite happened. M.C.s Crosby and Mercer did their best to keep the music flowing as freely as the whisky backstage, but the profusion of talent was largely...
With the 1964 Republican National Convention still three betwixt-cup-and-lip years away, Richard M. Nixon still holds a huge lead among G.O.P. voters for his party's presidential nomination. The Gallup poll this week reported that 60% of Republicans prefer Nixon to either New York's liberal Governor Nelson Rockefeller, with 18%, or Arizona's conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, with 17%. Independent voters, too, picked Nixon (49%) over Rockefeller (21%) and Goldwater (18%). Biggest news in the poll was down there in third place. While Rockefeller's strength had increased hardly at all since...
...unbelievable that there exists in your country a Siberia of Southern states where people are denied the right to vote. There does not seem to be much difference betwixt you Americans and the Russians...
...more so because these aspects of his character remained unchanged throughout his long life. But in a sense U.S. readers will recognize the type better than the British ever did-the second-generation citizen who despises the emigrants of other nations, the zealot of a minority religion, the betwixt-and-between man who is both of and not of his adopted country...