Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proper corner of the room. He did not try to talk in the human sense, but Rosemarie learned the noises that he made to express emotion. A guttural gurgle meant contentment, and a soft cough meant that he was going to get vicious. When he tried to bite, Rosemarie once knocked him clear across the room, but Knorke did not hold this against...
...core hi-fiers. have been tuning their ears to even newer vibrations-the sounds of stereophonic tape. The record industry, with a fortune invested in disks, is sidling up to stereo tapes with the nervous caution of a man who fears he may be feeding the puppy that will bite him. The industry goes on with the feeding, though, because there is a possibility that the pup will grow up into a big commercial animal...
...ranges rhapsodically from the hills (he claims there are 30) to the weather (which he says beats sex as the city's "Topic A"). He even manages to extol such dubious assets as the city's sky-high alcoholism rate and the fleas, which, according to Caen, "bite only tourists and newcomers" because the natives are "so full of garlic." At times, Garlic Lover Caen sounds as if he had distilled his high-calorie prose from the Reader's Digest's Picturesque Speech Department. Sample: "The sidewalk flower stands exuding such clouds of heavy perfume that...
ANGEL BERNAL CARBAJAL, 57, is the President's closest friend and a "man with no bite." Like Aleman and Ruiz Cortines, Carbajal is a native of Veracruz and now holds the patronage-heavy post of Interior Minister. A onetime professor of history and Supreme Court justice, he is bald, calm and personable...
...mess of items. No self-respecting vulture would be caught in the company of these carrion slingers. Says Curtis the flack of Lancaster the gossipist: "You got him for a friend; you don't need an enemy!" Says Burt to Tony: "I'd hate to take a bite out of you. You're a cookie full of arsenic...