Word: bitely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Becoming Herself. By "garbage," Hazlewood meant pain, heartbreak, worldliness. He carted it out of her, distilled it into a recording of his mildly rocking These Boots Are Made for Walking, which Nancy sang with all the cynical bite she could muster. Boots sold nearly 4,000,000 copies, and Nancy, outfitting herself with 250 pairs of boots, went stomping around the world on a promotional junket...
Most of the 700 tax-free U.S. periodicals will not feel the bite, for they carry little or no advertising and operate in the red. But a minority, including Nation's Business, the Geographic, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Analytical Chemistry (published by the American Chemical Society), will be hard hit. Total advertising revenues of the tax-exempts amount to more than $100 million per year. Taxes will take quite a bite out of this...
...living up to his image of himself as an intellectual Gary Grant, which is not easy "when one is from Flatbush, stands just 51 feet tall, weighs 123 pounds, can't see any too well, and has a head of odd-looking red hair." To compensate, he bites his nails, and when his supply runs out, "I bite the nails of loved ones...
...Administration and responsibility it is. But let us not ignore the accomplishments of the Johnson Administration of these last three years. And let us see that some of the reaction these measures are encountering--notably to civil rights legislation in the North--is the best proof that they have bite. Let there be no doubt about the proper liberal posture in these matters. It is to take pride in the accomplishments and in the great liberal thrust that carried them into effect...
Strip mining is a simple, productive and inexpensive method of mining coal, both hard and soft; it accounts for one-third of the nation's total 500 million ton annual output. Big power shovels rip off the topsoil, then bite into the underlying seams to depths of more than 100 feet and load the coal onto trucks. But far too often, irresponsible strip miners, operating under ancient mineral-rights leases, have mined the land and simply moved on, leaving behind a fearful legacy of tormented earth. In West Virginia alone, strip miners are tearing up land at the rate...