Word: biting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rabies is one of mankind's oldest and most feared scourges. It was known in ancient Mesopotamia, where a fine of 40 shekels of silver was levied against the owner of any dog whose bite caused a freeman's death (the rate for slaves was 15 shekels). Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless they are inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease. There were no reported human deaths from rabies in the U.S. last year, thanks to prompt vaccination. But the Federal Center for Disease Control...
...Sommaripa, a member of the Citizens for Participation in Political Action who will head a workshop on "The Domestic Effects of Militarism," said yesterday he supports holding separate workshops because "you can't tackle every aspect of American militarism at once. It's too much for the public to bite off, and they become apathetic...
...Papadakis loves America. He goes out to get a twenty-foot neon sign which shows an American flag shaking hands with a Greek flag. Chambers is nowhere near that state of mind. While Papadakis is gone. Chambers and Cora go after each other like demons. Cora begs Chambers to bite her. When he kisses her he says he can feel the blood spurt into his mouth. Papadakis hires Chambers to run his gas station...
...gratuity given by a boss to his underling. The word was first used extensively to mean a bribe in connection with the money that a new sultan gave his troops. In most Spanish-speaking countries, el soborno means a payoff, but in Mexico payola is aptly described as the bite (la mordida...
...quick, reluctant smile exudes poignancy. Physically, she is the perfect realization of Polanski's idea of "provocative beauty." Her full lips suggest a smoldering sensuality, undetectable in those Bambi-esque eyes. Even the tiny scar on her left cheek seems to heighten her beauty, like Gene Tierney's over-bite. The trouble with Kinski is her voice, a wonderfully funny, squeaky little thing. It quivers and gurgles and struggles to capture an English accent but sounds oddly Irish instead. She rushes to finish many of her lines, as though by hurrying, she could hide that prepubescent tremulousness in her delivery...