Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...course, the Republicans were a bit concerned over the serviceman's ballot; they didn't make the decision until after the election...
...Divine Simplicity. The rambunctious Defense Minister has settled down a bit since 1957, when he married a brewer's attractive daughter, a summa cum laude graduate of the same Munich school where Strauss was primus (top) of his class. They have a ig-month-old son named Max Josef, and Strauss has already bought the boy an electric train and, of course, made himself an expert on electric trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three...
...Bit of Cheese. The Russian offer was little more than a tempting bit of cheese on the treadle of a Communist trap. A smelter would give employment to only 100 workers. It would force Bolivia to import large quantities of costly British coke to refine its relatively low-grade (30%) ore. It would put Bolivia in competition with the international tin cartel, thousands of expensive miles from potential markets. Bolivia would have to accept platoons of Soviet "technicians" and go through with the first Russo-Bolivian exchange of diplomats in history...
Later on in the afternoon he waxed a bit more serious, but still made his point comfortably in introducing the theme of the International Battalion, Freiheit." "This is a song about men," he explained, "who fought against Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco a few years before it was fashionable...
...thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming of the future war will deprive the most deserving bloc of its veterans of their bonus, by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humor are not to be censored. Youth must play; and deadly fatalism is quite as diverting as belligerent and shallow pacifism. --Harvard CRIMSON, March...