Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters." He ran errands for the district captain, chauffeured for Court Clerk Tommy O'Connell. Old Tommy once took Carmine to a restaurant and ordered frogs' legs, the first time De Sapio had ever heard that they could be eaten. Just as De Sapio took his first bite, O'Connell leaned over on his shoulder, dead of a heart attack...
...doing its best to lock out individual U.S. businessmen as well. Even for low-income businessmen the rates are prohibitive, e.g., a $6,000-a-year businessman with three dependents must pay $2,639 in taxes v. some $600 in the U.S. On a $20,000 salary, the bite is $12-680 v. about $4,124 at home...
...Bark Was Worse Than the Bite UNDER the Administration of President Dwight Eisenhower, business has had a more favorable atmosphere in Washington than at any time in the past 20 years. But on Capitol Hill, particularly after the U.S. elected a Democratic-controlled Congress last fall, there has been a barrage of anti-business talk. Now that the House and Senate have finished their work for this year, how did business and the businessman actually fare in the first session of the 84th Congress? Within two days after the new Congress organized in January, Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright...
...father and his older brother picked one of the first cases off the bottling-plant line and sent it air express to President Franklin D. Roosevelt as a heartfelt token of thanks. Ever since Gussie Busch has been a Democrat ("I'll be damned if I'll bite the hand that fed me"), thus giving some latter-day verisimilitude to Horace Greeley's remark, circa 1860: "I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers were Democrats...
Bare Leg. To keep check on the density of the flies during the 40-day spraying period, the expedition resorted to a makeshift method: a member of the rescue team exposed an arm or leg for a specified time, then counted the fly bites on it. Swift treatment prevented infection. At first, as many as 400 bites a day were being counted; at the end of 40 days, a man could bare his arm or leg without getting a single bite. Even mosquitoes and other pests had been wiped out by the helicopters' relentless spraying...