Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...flight of Czechoslovak turbojets, carrying relief supplies to the Congo, took advantage of the opportunity to try a bit of espionage. Straying from their original flight plan over the Mediterranean, they swung over Spain on a course that would take them over U.S. airbases near the cities of Saragossa, Madrid and Seville, presumably to make a radar survey for possible future use. The Czech planes were intercepted by Spanish F-86 fighters and herded back across the border...
...course as if she owned it. Betsy curled in long, difficult putts-one of 60 ft.-with grooved accuracy, gained six strokes on the leaders in the first six holes, and finished the morning 18 with a 4-under-par 68, tying the tournament record. She wilted a bit in the afternoon sun and slipped to a 75. It was just enough to win when 25-year-old Joyce Ziske's challenge failed on the final hole. Champion Rawls's 72-hole total: a 4-over-par 292 strokes-the exact score Old Pro Betsy, three days before...
...stand was courageous and decidedly overambitious. "These United States of America," snorted Austria's Prince Metternich, "have astonished Europe by a new act of revolt, more unprovoked, fully as audacious and no less dangerous than the former"-meaning the American Revolution. But Lafayette called it "the best little bit of paper that God had ever permitted any man to give to the world." Intervention License. Teddy Roosevelt amended the Monroe Doctrine to mean that continued disturbance in a Latin American country could force the U.S. to intervene to forestall intervention from Europe. Thus licensed for intervention, U.S. marines marched...
...Federal Reserve Board reported that the industrial production index declined in June by 1% to 109 of the 1957 average, due primarily to the cut in steel production. This left the index two points lower than the high of 111 last January. But if production was off a bit, consumer buying in June ($18.7 billion) was a record for the month...
...Lehman's level, but they are always adequate and sometimes excellent. June Knight at one point does something marvelous with her lower jaw, which I haven't figured out yet, and makes herself into a young girl. Frederic Moorehouse in the central role of Moorehouse starts out a bit wobbly but gains control as the character grows older. Ann Lilley's performance is aided by her engaging face, fascinating body, and versatile voice. Sally Kirkland looks so charming in a beaded flapper dress that one can forgive her occasional awkward hand-wringing...