Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prostate, as well as leukemia and Hodgkin's disease. From this has come a surge of confidence that increasingly potent drugs can be found that eventually will effect outright cures. So great is this confidence that the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center now gets the biggest single bite ($23 million) of NCI's budget, with $18 million going out in grants and contracts for development and screening of new drugs. In addition, almost $4,000,000 goes for testing screened drugs in patients...
...Vertical Negro Plan," which solves the problem of painless school integration by removing seats from classroom desks-on the theory that white Southerners think nothing of associating with Negroes when they are standing in elevators, supermarket queues, and the like. In the second collection, there is more blandness than bite, although Golden does return to the subject of segregation: "Free of charge, I offered the $64,000 people an idea to help get an additional ten million viewers in the South: Ask the questions they ask Negroes in Mississippi to qualify them as voters. They're interesting questions, like...
Clipping Coupons. Expressed in the hostility toward public spending were both longaccumulated annoyance at the bite of taxation and sharp awareness of the nibble of price upcreep. In response to a recent Los Angeles Times campaign urging readers to write to their Congressmen in protest against inflationary federal spending, more than 30,000 letters descended on California members of Congress. The Chicago Tribune printed handy "stop inflation" coupons, and more than 130,000 were clipped out by readers and mailed to Springfield and Washington...
Rattled. In Albuquerque, one Navajo took a shot at another, explained, "He was going to turn himself into a snake and bite...
...order would be dissolved by an appellate court. Last week Jimmy Hoffa got the shock of his busy life: three judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals not only upheld the bulk of Judge Letts's order, but gave it teeth that seemed likely to take a big bite out of Hoffa in his ruthless drive for power...