Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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After ten months fighting with the Finish army and the French Foreign Legion and serving the Czech, Norwegian, and French civil governments, this year may well seem a bit tame for John Crane-Baker...
Instead of a Freshman issue that savors of lazy Pacific beaches, the Advocate has passed out at registration a magazine of short stories for the most part, but with three poems and a useful bit of prose, that is averagely high quality, yet lacks anything top-notch...
...fifth column, which was at work even in London. Across the city like a flame licked the rumor that the Germans had made a landing in Eire. The German radio helped, warning of an invasion on Sept. 16 which failed to materialize. Signor Mussolini's penpushers did their bit: onetime Fascist Party General Secretary Roberto Farinacci wrote that the invasion was off until next spring...
Night after night the bombers came, morning after morning London went to work redeyed. But London remained on the whole good-natured. The Times's bridge correspondent complained a bit that the raids were "having a serious effect on bridge." But a taxicab driver inserted an advertisement in the Times's personal column apologizing for losing his temper during a raid...
...Ormond concluded that a dull child may be "every bit as imaginative" as a brighter one, has certain advantages as a poet: 1) because he has read less, his poetry is innocent of cliches; 2) because his reactions are more primitive ("He is more apt to be a jitterbug"), his poetry has rhythm...