Word: biting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Denver at the age of five suffering from malnutrition; at meals she would hold her plate to her face while she wolfed down her food. Other Vietnamese newcomers hoarded food in bureau drawers. The adopted son of Randy and Debbie Boroughs of Wayne, Pa., is very conscious of every bite. "Once he dropped a grain of rice on the floor," recalls his mother, "then quickly got down from the chair, picked it up and put it in his mouth." Yet, to this day, she adds, "he never eats all his food without offering some of it to others...
...ease in Zion... though they dig into hell, thence shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down... And though they be hid from my sight at the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them. --from the Book of Amos, King James Version...
...believe, some oil companies slashed imports. Some Government officials complain that weeks passed between FEO'S discovery of a decline in imports and Simon's decision to order needed changes in the program. One economist at the Council of Economic Advisers grumbles, "There was great reluctance to bite the bullet...
...rest of the country, traffic is up less dramatically-a pattern that seems to reflect the geographically uneven bite of the gasoline shortage. Amtrak cars are still rolling across the Midwest and Far West nearly empty, while station managers in the Northeast have had to rent cars from local commuter railroads to help handle the crush. Amtrak's losses swelled to $158 million last year, $11 million more than in 1972, despite a 24% gain in revenues, to $202 million. Congress is picking up nearly all of the tab through a $154 million subsidy, and Amtrak officials are expected...
...spirit of rivalrous competition and self-important narcissism now so rampant in the fourth estate." Managing Editor Howard Simons of the Washington Post, the most tenacious newspaper on the Watergate trail, spoke recently about "shark frenzy"-the urge among some newsmen "to rush in to get a bite of that bleeding body in the water...