Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yearling's dramatic scenes are cunningly, almost too-knowingly manipulated, but they are nonetheless effective: the bear hunt, the ruinous rainy spell, Pa's near-fatal snake bite, the deer killing, Jody's perpetual wonder at a wonderful world, Penny Baxter's deep and tender understanding of his wife's and son's troubles. Underscoring all these emotion-mauling theatrics is a musical background that sounds as if it might have been recorded by the Heavenly Choir itself...
...popular than scholarly, were employed in pouring out some of the most effective anti-Nazi word weapons that the Allies produced anywhere. In his "Izvestia" articles, Ehrenburg is once again on the home field, giving America the treatment it must continue to expect from the Russian press, with the bite of dogmatism this time tempered by the author's individual and uncollectivized analytical abilities...
Nobody in his senses believed that Guatemala seriously contemplated expropriating the United Fruit's immense, highly mechanized plantations. With a bark fiercer than his bite, Arévalo in his 20 months of rule had not even got around to using his constitutional power to revise the company's 50-year exemption from new taxation. But his bold speechifying had an immediate effect: next day the strike was suspended; United Fruit agreed to rehire hundreds of discharged workers and ordered its ships to resume their calls at the Caribbean port of Puerto Barrios...
...which had swollen out of all proportion to production. Easy-to-get parts had piled up while G.M. waited for hard-to-get parts with which to make cars. Another $242 million had gone to reconvert and expand plant facilities. And G.M.'s stockholders had taken another big bite; dividends had totaled $70 million more than G.M. earned...
Exactly 90 minutes before the kickoff, assuming good visibility and good passing conditions, a large bite will be taken out of Old Sol, although the astronomers promised no detectable loss of light for those anxious to anticipate evening conditions...