Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fireman Gordon L. Dell testified that guards made him run around on his hands and knees like a dog, barking and biting other prisoners. "Once they ordered me to bite the guard sergeant. I crawled over but didn't bite him. He kicked me hard anyway. Another time a guard burned the back of my neck with a cigarette, and another time a second prisoner and I had our heads banged together so hard I lost consciousness...
...take over if Erhard's prophecies flopped. But the professor's exhortations to Germans to wait for lower prices paid off. The inflation threat faded, and the German economy took off on the boom that has yet to end. Shortly after that crisis, Erhard took a hefty bite on his cigar and told a visitor: "Remember all those announcements I made about controls? You know how many I had to put in force? None...
...Reliable Deus. The trouble on the beach is only a sand-flea bite compared to the other dangers awaiting dauntless Theagenes and Charicleia. She is determined to achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery...
Many another co-worker has felt the bite of Philip's sarcasm. Said one of his close associates: "He doesn't mind putting himself out for people it's his duty to entertain. But when he wants facts from someone who is supposed to have them and he finds out they don't or are indifferent-well, then he can be bloody rude." He once interrupted a long-winded scientist in the midst of a long lecture, to remark: "That's all very well, but you still haven't found out what makes...
...happiest of the Brattle's revivals in some time, The Man in the White Suit is among the best of the British comedies. It is gloriously witty without ceasing to be intelligent and has lost none of its bite in the five years since it was first released...