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Word: bitely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this point, the President attacked the bill's opponents in his now-famous "bite the bullet" press conference. While his leaden language irritated many, it did make clear that a tax rise is the key to continued prosperity and the stability of the dollar. The Senate and House conferees eventually agreed, but -largely as a result of their annoyance at the President's blunt words-only at the $6 billion price the conservatives had demanded. With the stability of the economy at stake, Johnson can hardly refuse to go along, but he cannot take much pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Price of Prudence | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...shantytowns?romantic to the suburbanite, but symptomatic of scant heat and pinchgut rations to the poor; the bags of flour delivered by a well-meaning welfare agency, in a household that has no oven; the pervasive odor of human urine and rat droppings in perennially damp walk-ups; the bite of wind or snow through a wall of rotten bricks and no hope that the landlord will repair the crack. Poverty is the certainty of being gouged?particularly by one's own kind. For if the poor share anything it is oppressors: credit dentists and credit opticians; credit furniture stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A NATION WITHIN A NATION | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...vexed, vexatious tax bill, and Lyndon Johnson all at once was his old self again. For eight gesticulatory minutes-more than twice the time he devoted to the subject of peace talks-he laced into Capitol Hill economizers and urged Congressmen to "stand up like men" and vote, to "bite the bullet" no matter how much it hurt. Oddly enough, until he spoke, they had seemed ready to do just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Biting the Bullet | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...determining voice on any tax measure-meets to consider the matter. Angry as they are, most Congressmen now realize, like it or not, that higher taxes are mandatory if the economy and the dollar are to be saved. But like it or not, Lyndon Johnson also will have to bite the bullet and accept cutbacks that will maim some of his proudest programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Biting the Bullet | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...Bark & Bite. Mailer indulges his hero with a splendid deadpan pomposity, reinforced by the fact that he refers to himself throughout in the third person. The reader first meets him in his Brook lyn Heights apartment, picking up a ringing telephone as if it were a pistol loaded for Russian Roulette. "On impulse, thereby sharpening his instinct as a gambler, he took spot plunges: once in a while he would pick up his own phone. On this morning in September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Weekend Revolution | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

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