Word: biter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never a man to pass up the deadpanned crack, he explained: "I found biting to be more effective." In after-dinner speeches, which he makes as offhandedly as he once handled a football, he likes to describe the best player he ever had in this department, a guard named Biter Jones. "He was terrific. In one season he bit seven guards, one center and a flanker back, and was so clever at it that he was penalized only 65 yards...
Hard Question. Reformed Biter Shtykov and his colleagues on the commission had some heavy chewing to do on what seemed an indigestible Korean political situation. How, for instance, could the occupiers deal with Korea's welter of 200 political groups? Wearily commented a U.S. official: "There are three times more people registered for party membership in Korea than there is population in the country...
Aircraft from the Royal Navy's escort carrier H.M.S. Biter, first of these American-made auxiliaries to be identified in the Atlantic action, began the battles by depth-charging and machine-gunning two submarines. Long-range Coastal Command planes then joined the escort, and one of them, a Liberator, disabled a submarine. A British destroyer and one of the new British "frigates" (somewhat similar to the U.S. Navy's new destroyer escorts) led naval aircraft to another submarine. Attacking in turn, they destroyed the U-boat. Other aircraft, including the first Fortresses mentioned in Coastal Command...
...materialistic" and "prepared to sacrifice their lives without a moment's hesitation." A jumble of mysticisms and paradoxes, His Lordship's speech is termed by the New York Times "a Chesterfield essay. . (which) may become a wartime classic." But whatever its literary merits, Halifax's hate-tirade is a biter pill to swallow after the British government's repeated assertions that Britain fights the Nazi government, not the German people...
Beneath the outwardly smooth course of Anglo-American relations there runs a current of nagging hostility. The London Daily Express had this sarcastic bit to say on the death of Senator Borah: "We remember him as a biter critic of Britain. In this country he was always regarded as an extremist, but it must be remembered that all Americans shared his creed: America first." It would do no good to fan these smoldering embers, but The State Department can serve well the cause of keeping America at peace by insisting on the rights of neutrals. That these rights...