Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's proposals Wednesday followed from the conviction that his program has failed during the past year because he has provided no military bite to back up his diplomatic bark. Selective Service and Universal Military Training, he feels together with such men as James F. Byrnes and Walter Lippman, will provide the necessary bite. They will show both Russia and those European nations which may in the future fall into Russia's sphere that we "mean business." Russia is supposed to respond by displaying new respect for the potency of American policy; and nations such as France and Italy, theoretically...
Like Yale, other colleges relied on rich or big-name alumni to put the bite on lesser grads.-In most cases, behind the alumni amateurs were professional fund-raising agencies. Northwestern University alone wanted $167 million; Columbia needed $100 million. Harvard thought it could make do with $90 million. To refurbish the Mark Hopkins log at Williams (at a cost of $2,500,000), President James Phinney Baxter III spent 24 days in one recent month chasing dollars outside Williamstown. (He felt, he said, like an "itinerant mendicant...
Planes on the Line. Chinese hoped that other U.S. help, recently announced in Washington, would also have a bite to it. They wondered. As a partial answer to critics, Washington had just revealed a top-secret agreement, signed in 1945, under which the Chinese had been promised 1,071 transport and military planes. Most of these planes had already been delivered. But a quarter of them had arrived in no condition to fly. Another third had become useless for lack of parts for repairs. In August 1946, the whole delivery program had been suspended for ten months when...
...Heth in the Bible), who dominated Asia Minor from earliest biblical times, left stone-cut inscriptions so numerous and so lengthy that they seemed likely to contain plenty of ancient history. But since the diggers lacked a key to the stiff hieroglyphic characters, all they could do was bite their learned nails and hope that a key stone would turn up eventually...
...story: Mrs. Cheveley (Paulette Goddard), a high-flying blackmailer, puts the bite on the most model husband and statesman in turn-of-the-century England. Unless he publicly endorses a flagrant speculation fraud, she will expose the one piece of youthful crookedness upon which his fortune and his career are founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring...