Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...equaled the highest ever recorded,* it probably will not be recognized as a world record. To keep it from blowing down in the face of a stiff wind, the crossbar was placed on the vaulter's side of one of the upright standards-thereby making it just a bit more difficult to brush off. But the vault was still enough to serve warning to Olympians that the U.S., in addition to Gutowski and Bragg, has its high-flying Goose...
...once, we happy followers of skindiving are not depicted as a slightly mad race apart from the rest of mankind, but as we like to think of ourselves: sober and sensible types enjoying the one last bit of virgin wilderness left in this world. Fortunately, the last is most of the world...
...hive life of the new "people's communes." "In the cities," explained the Central Committee of China's Communist Party, "bourgeois ideology is still fairly prevalent among many of the capitalists and intellectuals; they still have misgivings about the establishment of communes-so we should wait a bit for them...
...promised to maintain the administrative efficiency achieved by General Ne Win's 17 months of army rule, and to emulate the democratic impartiality with which Ne Win presided over the elections. Last time. U Nu acknowledged, "we bit off more than we could chew. We propose not to embark on any new state enterprise, and, in particular, not to nationalize any existing industry now in private hands." Topping off his speech, U Nu repeated his most cherished pledge-to make Buddhism Burma's state religion...
...hare from Britain that should have a grand run on the big U.S. circuits, is one of those mercifully rare, inexcusably entertaining sentimental melodramas that leave the customers wondering whether to scream, sob, sniffle, snicker, groan or have a heart attack. In this case, they will probably do a bit of everything, and wind up blissfully bushed by the mightiest emotional binge of the cinema season...