Word: bitefuls
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...helped James Bond narrowly escape death by drowning, poison, bullets, knives, giant squids, falling cliffs, steam, rocket exhaust, auto wreck, buzz saw, scorpion bite, lethal plants, suffocation and surfeit of women. But there was no one to reciprocate for Ian Fleming, last week, in his apartment at Sandwich, where he was holidaying after reading proof on his latest, and last, James Bond adventure, The Man With the Golden Gun. He suffered a second heart attack, and four hours after he reached a hospital at Canterbury, Ian Fleming died. He had already spoken his own epitaph. "Oh," he said...
...weaknesses, though Nothing is an engaging try. After a slow start, Bates as the charming man-on-the-make carries the film swiftly along, and Elliot's portrayal of down-at-the-heels gentility is deft and assured. Only the ungenerous will complain that the bite of satire loses out to the geniality of humor...
...larvae had been allowed to mature they would have turned into half-inch flies resembling bluebottles, with yellow heads and blue-grey bodies. The human botfly does not bite or lay its eggs on people, but enslaves smaller flies and mosquitoes by gluing its eggs to their bodies. When the slave bites a victim, the eggs hatch into larvae which bore into him. And, says Dr. Kaye, two of them might have been enough to start a general infestation of the U.S. with another painful pest...
...funds, Romulo put the bite on sugar barons, who contributed $250,000 after he bluntly reminded them of the favors he did for the industry while negotiating the Philippine sugar quota when he was ambassador to Washington. Lobbying in the Philippine Congress, Romulo got extra money for scholarships, fellowships, better facilities for research and graduate study, raises for the faculty...
Whether this clever deal will come off depends on the answers to three questions: Will stockholders bite? Will Milligan fight? If he does, how successful will he be? Waiting for the outcome, the bidders are bullish. "You know what they say about the oil business," grinned Joseph Oliver, a Consolidation vice president. "When it's good, it's great; and when it's lousy, it's still pretty darned good...