Word: bitefuls
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...Bite on Boldly." Violence is vivid in the mysteries; Herod's soldiers slaughter three infants onstage, and even modern audiences blanch at green-faced, gloating Satan hissing among the writhing sinners before pitchforking them through the fanged jaws of Hell. Biblical characters have a buttonholing immediacy, like doddering, officious Noah, who groans...
Much of the dialogue rings with alliterative beauty. Satan coaxes Eve to "Bite on boldly be not abashed"; Eve echoes to Adam, "Bite on boldly," and rueful Adam grieves that he has betrayed God and "Broken his bidding bitterly...
BIGGEST TAX BITE in world is in West Germany, where taxes take 34% of gross national product, v. 29% in Great Britain, 26% in U.S. But a new British study shows top-bracket earners in Germany keep 47% of earnings, v. only...
This is the second lot of tax, you know, On money that I earned two years ago (The shark, they say, by no means Nature's knight, Will rest contented with a single bite: The barracuda, who's a fish more fell, Comes back and takes the other leg as well...
...Freud explained that little Hans had strong Oedipal feelings toward his mother; therefore he had hostility to ward his father and therefore anxiety. He repressed the anxiety and converted it into hippophobia ? he was afraid to go out be cause he was afraid of being castrated by the bite of a horse. To Freud the horse represented little Hans's father. This elaborate hypothesis neatly fitted Freud's preoccupation with castration fears, which Psychoanalyst Rollo May now interprets as the fear of losing mother's love and, hence, selfesteem...