Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railingless bridge. "He landed on some rocks 15 feet below. I ran home to announce the news." That same year Dali fell in love with a wounded bat. Says he: "I picked up the bat, crawling with ants . . . but instead of kissing it, I gave it such a vigorous bite with my jaws that I almost split...
Joel Ashley takes a good bite out of the juiciest part, that of Tiny, the cheerful extrovert. Claudia Morgan is somewhat less at home as Judith, though she snaps to life in the last act. Broun would probably get the biggest kick, though. out of the wise-cracking ball players portrayed by Karl Malden, Lewis Charles, and Fred Sherman. They talk his language, and it's the language the audience would have liked to hear more...
From then on the Vagabond became a man of strong emotions. Losing the game that way was a tremendous blow; it wouldn't have been so bad if they'd outplayed us and won by two touchdowns. On the trolley back he was ready to bite any offensive Yaleman. He went to a friend's room and poured four scotches down his throat. Even that didn't help. He was unhappy, and he didn't recover all night. He couldn't help it--this game meant a lot to him. But to think of what should have been the best...
...sarcasm did not bite. But many a plain citizen re-echoed General Marshall's grim comment that the Senate was giving Hitler a welcome, whistle-blown "time...
...time Tommy Hart mutters the chronic Navy gripe about Army fanfare: "During the first few days our Navy patrol planes crippled an enemy capital ship, and claimed nothing better than crippling. . . . [They] also seized opportunities for small-scale attacks-the bomb-down-the-smokestacks stunts-but that was flea-bite stuff about which they did not talk. . . . The wing [Patrol Ten] went back to the Malay barrier-fighting and flying and fighting. . . . But getting the information-really as much as the High Command could effectively use-getting it in the face of weather, Japanese Zeros, hell & high water; and always...