Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Poland's deep economic difficulties and bitter church-state conflict showed no signs of solution, his natural crotchetiness and distrust of "liberals" reasserted itself. (Says one of his associates: "Asking Gomulka to be reasonable and listen to advice is like asking a bear to be good-natured.") Bit by bit, the liberties of Poland's people have been curtailed, and the world has learned that though Wladyslaw Gomulka may be a Polish patriot, he is, above all, a dedicated Communist...
...million, no-interest loan. But, already adept at the begging bowl, he was careful not to join in the open attacks on the U.S. or to mention any other Western nation by name when deploring imperialism. To do so would destroy the chance of wangling a bit of Western aid to supplement and offset the swag he had picked up from the eager Communists...
After the OAS voted sanctions, the extremists, led by Trujillo's onetime secret police chief, John Abbes García, gained the ascendancy. Abbes, a combination court assassin and court jester who knows how to fawn on Trujillo's ego, took the bit in his teeth as Trujillo gave him rein. Powerful Radio Caribe, an ostensibly private radio station actually run by Abbes' henchmen, began attacking the Balaguer regime for being weak-kneed against the OAS. With the afternoon newspaper La Nación, also linked to Abbes, it "demanded" that Trujillo take over the presidency...
...Best bit: coming on board for his first inspection tour, Captain Gregson spies the nubile young nanny of the ship's nursery in the grasp of a seaman. "What's your job?" the captain roars. "Babies, sir," says the pretty thing. "Carry on," says the captain...
Last week the U.S. Agriculture Department announced a way to end the bane of a dog's life-fleas. By adding certain chemicals to dog food, it found that fleas that bit the dogs died...