Word: biting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then, of course, there was Halloween. After I dumped the candy corn and apples, I'd have all those neatly packaged morsels to parcel out, day by day, bite by bite. Sometimes three or four a day, even. I had very little willpower. Besides, Mother always knew how many I had had; I'd have chocolate breath. Also, that was before anyone had to worry about what the neighbors might have injected into the bar. The special neighbors always saved a big candy bar for their good little friends. That certainly solidified their neighborhood reputation...
Anyone who read A Clockwork Orange before having his eyeballs poached by Stanley Kubrick's movie version knows Anthony Burgess as a writer with a hearty appetite for the cosmic bite into such subjects as original sin, good v. evil and spiritual sloth-not to mention the need for individual moral choice. He is also intimidatingly prolific and versatile...
...over the introduction of automated typesetting technology, which is now widely used by papers across the country. Powers has insisted on higher wage increases than those won by eight other unions, ironclad job security, and greater union jurisdiction over the new equipment than the publishers are offering. To add bite to these demands, Powers aimed a "coordinated action" at the Daily News in mid-April. Printers were ordered to work at different speeds: "normal, slow and very slow." This tactic played havoc with News deadlines, prevented the publishing of more than 700 ad pages in 19 days, and cost...
...want to bite off more than we can chew by getting involved in a secondary boycott," he said. Golden said, however, he will direct Harwich Lithographers to drop the Union insignia from the Gazette during the strike...
Gray's dialogue has a graceful bite, but it does not have the edge of desperation that would have given it depth. Butley's life ravels like the end of his shirtsleeve; it conies undone in the single day we watch him. But Gray is less successful at evoking anxiety than in getting down the sort of dizzy, antic quality of academic life...