Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Just finished reading your reasonable, rational article on "that population explosion" [Jan. 11]. What a refreshing bit of positive reporting after the many laments of the prophets of gloom currently heard throughout the land...
CHAIRMAN Love has increased Burlington's productivity by well over 20% since 1956. His formula: Spend just a bit more than the next fellow. To expand and improve in the past decade, he anted up some $350 million, well above the industry average. Love also kept his wage bill under control by paying a bit more than the textile average, which at $1.58 an hour is the lowest of any basic industry. That way he fended off both unions and strikes in almost all his 123 plants from South Africa to California...
...police sergeant whose wife sews military symbols on his "long johns" (as they are waggishly referred to) in order to console him for having to wear civilian clothes. The situation is not much improved by a reference to the sergeant's "undercover activities" (get it?) or by an elaborate bit showing the sergeant putting on his uniform with voluptuous delight...
Space--Bristling a bit, Eisenhower said he doesn't feel particularly that international prestige is at stake in space exploration...
...lives in Belgium as the wife of a French banker. She writes in a rather stiff English that never conveys the cozy, weary sloppiness of Viennese upper-class slang. And many cliches of her adopted language apparently still strike her as fresh; too often her characters "champ at the bit" or find troubles weighing on them "like a millstone." To Author de Born's credit, her characterization is not nearly so cliché-ridden as her language. The sad pleasures of between-wars Vienna, the long afternoons of penurious idleness, the twilight of great houses, are evocatively done...