Word: bites
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bite...
Malaria is caused by an amebalike parasite of the genus Plasmodium. The parasite, which enters man's bloodstream through a mosquito bite, often destroys over a million red blood corpuscles per cubic millimetre in one bout of malaria...
...right now Goodman isn't receiving half the credit he deserves. You must remember that when he organized his band in 1935, the kind of arrangements he played constituted something entirely new in jazz. Even Fletcher Henderson's great band never had the ensemble precision and bite that you heard on the old Goodman records. Fletcher, it's true, arranged most of the stuff that Benny played, but Benny and his musicians deserve the credit for doing proper justice to those arrangements, which would be worthless if played by an inferior band...
...candle to it. Certainly the Michigan Band, subsidized by the Buick Company and fostered by the University, has reason for being so good; nonetheless, my cars at least were amazed by its technical brilliance. Besides a hair-trigger synchronization, Michigan boasts a set of trumpets which for clarity, bite, and precision are near tops among all college bands. By comparison the Harvard Band sounds dull and over-percussive. It seemed full of the booming of drums and the bleating of clarinets, while the all-important brasses cut through very poorly. Michigan had only a few drums, but these few played...
...Russell is unapproachable only in his special philosophical stratosphere. When the conversation moves to a mundane level, he loses his air of disconcerting coolness and begins to laugh, finger his horn-rimmed glasses and bite his pipe...