Word: bit
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...just an unfortunate incident," he declared, "My fellow comrades and I are still at a loss as to what we did wrong." In parting, he offered this self-justification: "I am my leader's taskman, and to be a taskman, at times you have to be a bit radical and perhaps a bit unconventional." On the evidence, Edgar Tekere is certainly both...
...nettled by untimely yakking does not imply the advocacy of universal silence. A rigorous discipline, silence is practiced by certain monks and others who believe that it heightens the soul's capacity to approach God. For ordinary people, a bit of silence may occasionally seem golden, but what they mostly need is the conversation that keeps them close to others. Those who do not get enough talk tend to wither in spirit...
Congressman Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.), however, in mentioning recent Reagan appointments said, "Reagan's a bit naive as to who's who and what's what...
...last backward glance and transmitted this stunning portrait of the ringed giant. The photograph shows a crescent Saturn casting a shadow on its own rings, from the perspective a traveler might get by approaching from the stars, rather than from the interior reaches of the solar system. Re-created bit by electronic bit in computers at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and released last week, the shot is so detailed that patches of the planet can be glimpsed through the rings, which are believed to consist of bits of dust and ice trapped by Saturn's gravitational...
...Crimson countered New Hampshire's obviously superior passing and shooting with scrappiness and heart, and almost pulled off a victory. Almost. Nearly. A bit redundant, perhaps. We all know the line about horseshoes and hand grenades--almost just doesn't count in basketball...