Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...arrival back in Cambridge, I went innocently to take a midnight bath in the third floor bathroom of Barnard Hall. There before me I found an absolutely unknown naked man masturbating in the tub. Go ahead and laugh, if you like. Of course there's something a bit comical about the scenario, shades of Portnoy or of Bruce Jay Friedman. Even more comical to remember that some girl in the dorm, a transfer student with more than the ordinary romantic-absurdist delusions about Harvard men, had seen the naked stranger wandering around the dorm all evening, but figured that...
Oertel's strength was somewhat of a surprise to Harvard. It was thought that most of the Crimson harriers would be able to handle him. And even the number five man. Tim Cahill, was running a bit better than expected...
...Yonkers, N.Y., supported mainly by his lecture fees, Gus Hall, general secretary of the American Communist Party, probably figured his needs included a little extra cash. He bought a New York State lottery ticket, and last week he found himself the winner of $500. Hall was not a bit sheepish about having indulged in such a capitalistic vice. To those who charged him with doctrinal impurity, he replied: "Marx said that the capitalist system creates its own grave diggers. Well, this is money for a few more shovels...
...everybody has to pay some part of the bill-through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed 15% so far this year, one Manhattan insurance broker says: "No one ever loses an old suit in a fire...
...motorists into alternative means of travel. Bernard White, 23, a teaching assistant at Michigan State, saved $2,100 to buy a new car this summer. Then he discovered that liability insurance would cost him anywhere from $330 to $650 a year, depending on what company wrote the policy. A bit shocked, White did some figuring. "In three years," he explains, "I would have paid 50% or more of the purchase price for insurance." Instead of a car, he bought a motorcycle...