Word: bites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trawlers Spray and Foam, groping the Atlantic for 750 miles off the Virginia Capes with a mile of steel cable sagging between them along the ocean floor, last week had a bite. The cable tightened, went taut, snapped. Whatever it had snared was ponderous. Repaired, the cable caught again and soon Diver Fred Neilson of Brooklyn clamped on his helmet, dropped overside like a sinker, 213 feet to the bottom. When he followed his stream of bubbles back up to the surface, he told his comrades that they had indeed found the Merida, a ship sunk 14 years...
...bacillus, a bug that will bite Little oafs who refuse to brush teeth every night...
...Century dictionary I read as follows, "Gadfly. The popular name of sundry flies which goad or sting domestic animals. They are comparatively large, very active, voracious and bloodthirsty, with great powers of biting, the mouth parts being highly developed. They also have great powers of flight. The bite is deep and painful, often drawing blood, though not poisonous. In strictness, only the females are gadflies, the males being smaller and quite inoffensive, living on the juices of plants. There are more than a thousand species...
...call 'divine craziness' is coming over us," he explained, and showed his meaning by the story of a drunk who came home with a long cut on the top of his head. "How did you cut yourself?" his wife asked. "I bit myself," was the reply. "How did you bite yourself so high up?" "I stood on a chair...
News item: "Cleopatra did not commit suicide through love, according to a Munich savant, but because the ancient Egyptians believed that death from an asp bite would insure apotheosis afterward...