Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman Committee had its teeth in Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and was unwilling to let go. After gnawing at Standard's synthetic-rubber deals. Chairman Harry S. Truman posed with President W. S. Parish mugging through a Standard synthetic tire. Then he took a new bite: at Standard's sales to Lati, the Italian airline which ferried Axis agents and funds between Rome and Brazil...
Though Rumania's snarls were angrier, Hungary seemed more ready to bite. Thousands of troops were manning the Rumanian frontier. In Transylvania, Hungary was deliberately conscripting men of Rumanian ancestry to reduce Rumania's ethnic claim to the territory. In Ankara, it was reported that Hungary's Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Franz Szombathelyi, had recently been in Sofia trying to persuade Bulgaria to sign a joint ultimatum against Rumania...
Hoarding last week stirred up Women's Wear Daily, which is to department stores what Variety is to the amusement industry. Earl W. Elhart, editor of its retail executive page, got mad enough to bite the hand that feeds him, and bite it hard...
...occasion of Morrison's wrath was an innocuous-looking cartoon whose bite was in its caption, "The price of petrol has been increased by one penny" (implying that British seamen were risking their lives to fatten the big corporations). As supporting evidence for his charge, Morrison quoted a paragraph from a Mirror editorial: "The accepted tip for Army leadership would, in plain words, be this: All who aspire to mislead the other in war should be brass-buttoned boneheads, socially prejudiced, arrogant and fussy. A tendency to heart disease, apoplexy, diabetes and high blood pressure is desirable...
Revised most recently in 1937 the present Red Cross text contains little information applicable to war injuries and war conditions, while the shortage of instructors with practical experience combines with unnecessary emphasis on non-war injuries, like snake-bite, to give the course an irrelevant turn not conducive to student interest...