Word: biting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books feed it more because they help give me some longer range vision. But news programs do give me ideas. Watching Ford address the farmers, I could get 20 cartoons. Like the one I just did with Bernard and the plateful of bullets and his mother telling him to bite the bullets slowly and not to eat them too fast...
...four of the animals died. The Environmental Protection Agency warns that flea-collar poisoning may produce dizziness, nausea and skin rashes in humans. The pesky insects generally prefer the fur of pets, but can be found on human bodies. Fleas can also live in carpets and furniture, emerging to bite householders. Thus, suggest health officials, people who have flea problems should use a vacuum cleaner, carefully empty the contents into a plastic bag and then close it tightly, lest they recycle the fleas...
...church so long as it did not "endanger the lives or health of persons who do not consent to exposure of such danger." That danger is still there. The week the Tennessee decision was handed down, a 28-year-old worshiper died in West Virginia from a rattlesnake bite incurred at a Pentecostal rite...
...draping his motley over perishable structures, the satirist risks that they will some day collapse, taking his work down with them. A number of pieces in Guilty Pleasures are predicated on Richard Nixon, and their bite has already become gummy. One of the book's funnier stories (An Hesitation on the Bank of the Delaware) overcomes this loss through shameless slapstick. George Washington postpones his rowboat crossing until hearing whether Congress will continue to finance his personal extravagances. Speaking in an age when the printed s looked like an f, an aide informs the general that demands...
Townsend's blast points to a potentially serious political problem for the President: the businessmen who have been his strong supporters may desert him if a recession really begins to bite. Last week Administration aides hinted that Ford may modify his package of anti-inflation proposals, notably the 5% income surtax, if the economic situation warrants it. But the feeling so far is by no means unanimous, even among auto executives, who mostly declined to join Townsend's attack on the Ford program. Speaking at an automotive engineers' convention last week, Ford Motor President Lee Iacocca said...