Word: biting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changed her life. It was in 1947 when she was walking to work in Kenton, Ohio, a new graduate of a Lima, Ohio, beauty school. She was munching a 100 Queen Anne Pecan Roll with a jingle on the wrapper: "Jimmy bought a jingle bar,/ He loved each luscious bite;/ Said he, Queen Anne's jingle bar . . ." Diane filled in the last line with "Is fit for a king all right." She won two motor scooters, which she promptly sold for $500. With the money she bought the equipment to open her own salon, the Starlight Beauty Shoppe...
...Vampire blob" is a tag game. Anyone tagged, with a mock bite on the neck, joins hands with the biter and becomes part of the monster. "The lap game" is even simpler: a crowd forms a huge ring, and everyone sits down simultaneously on the player behind. Though "blob" and "lap" may seem like innocent cavorting, they are serious business to San Francisco's New Games Foundation. An offshoot of a 1973 New Games Tournament, staged by Whole Earth Catalog Creator Stewart Brand, the foundation is now a growing national enterprise. Its goal is nothing less than to change...
Cleveland had to decide whether or not to retain the mayor with the face of a clever schoolboy and the bite of a barracuda. The recall election was forced by Kucinich's enemies, who issued their challenge after he had fired popular Police Chief Richard Hongisto. Battling for his job, Kucinich claimed he was being hounded by "the bosses" because he fought for "the people." He won-barely. With fewer than half of the voters going to the polls, the mayor's strongholds among the white working-class ethnics, carried the day by 236 votes...
...disagree with your opinion that a tough budget-cutting policy will arouse furious opposition. So do many of my friends. We are all prepared to bite the bullet...
...effect of somehow trivializing the wearer. For years Filipino men have managed to be both elegant and comfortable in the barong tagalog, the embroidered shirt that is a kind of national costume. The caftan might not pass as suitable business attire, and the clergyman's Roman collar can bite the neck. But among the tunics, togas, jerkins, buff coats, cassocks, sweatshirts, turtlenecks and other garments that humans have experimented with down the long centuries, there must be some arrangement that will get a man past the maitre d'. A necktie cannot be the final answer...