Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sides, frustrations presently piled up. All of Joe Stilwell's vinegar personality could not bite a way through the conflicting confusions of U.S. foreign policy, Chinese domestic policy and Britain's Asiatic aims...
...human bite is sometimes sharper than a serpent's tooth. A bite that is hard enough to break the skin, even with prompt treatment, may result in an amputation. If treatment is delayed twelve hours, the chances of amputation are increased threefold. In fact, said Dr. Otho C. Hudson of Hempstead, L.I., in last fortnight's New York State Journal of Medicine, human bites anywhere on the body are much more dangerous than animal bites (except, of course, those of rabid dogs). Reason: human mouths contain very destructive bacteria...
...space was so small he couldn't squirm around. He couldn't see out of his little prison. He had not had a bite to eat or a drop of water...
...giant shovel dipped and took a three-ton bite of rich, iron-bearing earth. Steep Rock Mine was open at last. The men who saw this happen in the wilderness near Atikokan, Ont. knew they were seeing economic history in the making...
...Bite. In the face of this situation Akron does not chew as much war work as it has bitten off. As tire-making slacked when rubber got scarce, the Big Four grabbed orders for rubber rafts, gas tanks, ammunition, etc. Goodyear even set up its own aircraft unit, now employs 24,000 turning out Corsair fighters and plane parts. This was good business as long as the synthetic rubber program floundered. But now synthetic is pouring in, and Akron is trying to turn out more heavy tires than ever before...