Word: bites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bite, Bing...
Commented Friend Irwin: "Gandhi is now speaking in a language the Indian people understand. If I were to get out in the hallway of the government buildings at New Delhi, squat on the floor and refuse to eat a bite until the Indian civil disobedience movement came to terms, the trouble would be over in a few days. Of course, before those few days could elapse my Liberal, Conservative and Labor colleagues in London would send for me to come home and would have a padded cell waiting for me on my arrival...
...Dyer & associates, having determined that the flea as well as the louse is a carrier of typhus, concentrated on treatments. They pulverized infected fleas, rubbed the mash into scratches which they made on the bodies of monkeys and guinea pigs. When Dr. Dyer's staff let typhus fleas bite the vaccinated animals, typhus fever developed in only half the animals. Whereupon the investigators prepared a more potent vaccine with which they will inoculate themselves. They are confident that at last they have the treatment and preventive of typhus as it appears...
...country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does not bite like Gin, it does not scrape like Scotch. It softens the rough edges, it burnishes the afterglow, and it catches a wind tossed echo of the music of the spheres. And above all it flows from a pitcher the mate to which Hawthorne has called miraculous...
...bull, who was meeting him half way. In this contact the pony was gored in the chest section and in the encounter Pickett was able to obtain his position for throttling the bull. . . . At no time was Pickett on the bull's back nor did he ever bite the animal's nose. It is one thing to "bulldog" or wrestle with a ewe-necked steer and quite another to tackle a well-developed fighting bull. Pickett found this out, much to his consternation. Owing to the much greater thickness of the bull's neck, instead of being...