Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Khrushchev unrolled some details, he made it clear that he was not being a bit impractical. "Our air force and navy," said Khrushchev, waving a stubby finger at his listeners, "have lost their previous importance. Their arms are not being reduced but replaced. We have cut down and we shall even discontinue the manufacture of bombers; already our armed forces have to a considerable extent shifted to rocket and nuclear arms. The proposed reduction will in no way reduce the firepower of our armed forces, and this is the main point. . . Soviet scientists have made it possible to equip...
...Andrei's divorce could be got. Was Andrei merely a fortune-hunting cad on the make for Gamble's Remington-typewriter legacy? It was easy to draw that conclusion, but, oddly enough, many of Gamble Benedict's good friends, while admitting that the romance is a bit unwieldy at the moment, believe that it may be true love. Interestingly. Brother Douglas, 21, eloped a couple of years ago at a tender age-but Grammy had that match annulled promptly...
...four and became a precociously scholarly tot. At six, he could read Virgil, knew Latin and the Bible thoroughly. At Eton he copped almost every prize except the Newcastle scholarship; the boy who beat him crammed so hard that all his hair fell out. No crammer, Ronald was a bit of a prankster. He particularly disliked Classmate Hugh Dalton, later Chancellor of the Exchequer. On an exam paper asking "What are the oldest parts of the book of Exodus?" Ronald altered Dalton's paper to read "oddest," and the future politico listed all of the grosser passages...
...costs for plants and highly trained white-collar staffs. As sales dropped and earnings were squeezed, the tendency was to hike prices in hopes of maintaining profits. Says Schultze: By insisting on immediate returns on their investment "instead of writing it off against the future, they showed a little bit of a lack of imagination...
...situation seems almost routine. Colonel Roberts, the post commander in Fahrbach, is Regular Army, a martinet, a bit contemptuous of the defeated, none too pleased about U.S. efforts to rehabilitate the Nazi mind. His sensitive wife Catherine has long since lived in another world, where human spirit reaches human spirit through some sixth sense that easily transcends differences created by war or nationality. Milly, his teen-age daughter, is so far out in soul land that daddy scarcely knows her. Mamma quickly falls for an impoverished German newspaperman who fought with Rommel and spent two years as a prisoner...