Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years after the enactment of the Clayton Act," wrote Burton, "it now becomes apparent for the first time that Section 7 has been a sleeping giant all along. Every corporation which has acquired a stock interest [in a customer or supplier since 1914] is exposed, retroactively, to the bite of the newly discovered teeth...
...abolition of the principle of parity (TIME, Jan. 28) threw physics into an enjoyable turmoil from which it has not yet emerged. If long-sacred parity was laid low, the physicists argued eagerly, why shouldn't other lordly laws bite the dust too? Even gravitation, supposed to be pretty well explained by Einstein's general relativity, might be vulnerable. Last week the top award ($1,000) of the Gravity Research Foundation, New Boston, N.H. went to a paper by Physicist Philip Morrison of Cornell and Astronomer Thomas Gold of Harvard which argues that somewhere in the universe there...
...Price of Leadership. In both Britain and France, at the height of the dispute over U.S. embargoes on trade with Communist China, the press was quick to view the violence as evidence not only that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will bite the hand that feeds him, but has very few teeth left. Said the neutralist newspaper Le Monde: "The Nationalists have lost almost all hope of winning back China. This sense of frustration naturally nourishes the feeling of latent bitterness against the Americans." If the riots "lead to fresh thinking about Formosa," said the Manchester Guardian, "they will have done...
...fantastic lineage to claim for just another wacky art colony. Nevertheless, a truth is suggested here-a bitter bite from the orange on the tree of knowledge. The vision of an earthly paradise is an ancient delusion. The trouble is not the earth but man. Miller's real estate is magnificent, and the photographs of the Big Sur country are wonderful, but alas, the personnel...
...Bite the Dusk. Daniel Laverock is a stout-bodied chap in his 20s, of good family and a surpassing ugliness. When he finds himself jobless in the Depression '30s, he gets a job as manager of the Pantheon, a wretched Fowlers End movie-vaudeville house owned by Sam Yudenow. It is Sam who dominates the book, a grasping, greedy, devious monster whose hilariously disarranged speech makes the best lines attributed to Sam Goldwyn read like decorous bits from Fowler's Modern English Usage. He is a devoted movie fan, particularly of westerns: "Bing, bash, bosh-another foreskin bites...