Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will that belief persist after the budget cuts begin to bite, as they certainly will? Said O'Neill, who was in Massachusetts playing golf last week: "Reagan's coalition slipped from 63 Democrats [who voted the President's way on an early budget resolution] to 29, and he had to give tangible goods to get them. He'll slip a hell of a lot further before he's done...
...bleak convictions, not just about movie people, but the human race in general. In the end, one cannot help respecting a movie that hilariously links death and creativity, yet has enough childish lunacy to have one creep respond to another's admonitory finger wave by simply taking a bite out of the wagging digit. On a colossal scale, that is what Edwards has done in S.O.B. - bitten the hand that feeds him. And discovered that it is soul food...
...small fingers. "That's why they came to me: I could operate on a sheep or goat without mangling the poor thing. Then it was large beasts. Today it's also dogs, cats, parakeets. And hamsters. I don't like to treat them; they bite." After one decade of practice, Herriot had compiled enough material to fill a book. After 30 years, he had enough for a library. But he never attempted a memoir until his wife informed him that people over 50 simply didn't become writers...
...kill nowt gurt nor small! They's gentle things!' he roared, and took a bite of his stirk sandwich...
...they do you will replace them. However,' said I, 'if you are worried about that, then build two fences, and have the dogs run between the two fences.' He said, 'No.' I said, 'Why?' He said: 'Because somebody might climb over the fences, and the dog would bite him.' I said, 'I thought that is what dogs were for. But if you are afraid a dog will bite somebody, then use a wolf.' I said, There is no recorded case of a wolf attacking a human being, except if it were rabid...