Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried to get a package of ice cream out of a vending machine, grasped the package firmly, pulled, found his hand was stuck; firemen gave up the struggle 45 minutes later, smashed the machine away from Folweiler, who was treated at a Philadelphia hospital for lacerations and ice cream bite...
Fresh-water anglers have their troubles too. They need only a fishing license and enough tackle to get a bite. But many popular inland haunts like Glacier Park's Paradise Creek and Two-Medicine Lake, many of Maine's 2,500 lakes, are practically inaccessible except by automobile...
Illegal. In Florida's Supreme Court, Willis Abram Briggs, who said he had fallen ill as a result of a fleabite, lost his fight for workmen's compensation because he had felt the flea bite him but had not actually seen it happen...
...dance because a visit to the saint's chapel sometimes worked a cure. The modern medical name for it is tarantism, after the wild Italian folk dance, the tarantella. The Italians have a common belief that the tarantella drives out the poison of a tarantula's bite by causing perspiration, and that the dance was named for the spider. Actually, both dance and spider were named for the city of Taranto, which was hit hard by the dancing mania...
Drill formation were often irksome--but General Quarters Drill will also require physical exertion and military precision. There weren't very many free evening--but we did manage to make a few liberties, and in Boston at least, the beet is cold and the files don't bite...