Word: bitefuls
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...direct-mail approach to subscribers, old and new, has always had excellent results. Sometimes they are even amazing. The return, stamped envelopes have brought back keys, rent money, slices of cheese and once, an upper plate of false teeth so dull they could not bite their way out of a paper...
...began to ask questions. Had they been promoted? What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General Douglas MacArthur's personal C-54 transport), on their way to Honolulu. They savored every bite of filet mignon, drank two gallons of milk and leafed through magazines, admiring pictures of a girl they had never heard of named Gina Lollobrigida...
...China's alluvial Yangtze plains, recent Communist newspapers describe how peasants are selling farm implements and animals, in Anhwei province even their own children, in exchange for a decent bite to eat. In the Tungting Lake region, badly ravaged by the floods, one in every two peasants was reported starving; in one town in Hunan, 527 out of 600 families were dependent on relief. Kiangsi daily admitted food riots in Sunwu county, where 20 peasants were killed or wounded when they tried to storm Communist storage granaries. The peasant resentment was so bad, People's Daily admitted, that...
Love Me or Leave Me (MGM) is a Hollywood paradox: a CinemaScope musical that has the bite of authenticity. In telling the story of Ruth Etting, the famed torch singer of the '20s, the film rings true just by following the broad outline of her career as it was carried in the tabloid headlines...
...Manufacturing Co.'s 40-ton continuous coal miner that can eat into a coal seam at the rate of 4½ feet per minute, mine eight tons of coal in the same time (see cut). Two boring arms bite into the coal, cut it into small pieces and carry it by conveyor belt to a waiting cart. Joy, with 300 older continuous miners in operation, says its new giant will carve out twice as much coal as the older models. Even before the new "Twin Borer" could be wheeled onto the floor, an Indiana producer snapped...