Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's East Side, and Alicia changes her Olds for a chauffeur-driven Cadillac. At least once a year she goes off alone to her six-room Georgia house near the Okefenokee Swamp, where she calmly shoos water moccasins into the water "because they can't bite from there." Every summer Publisher Patterson visits her sister Josephine Patterson Albright* at her ranch in Dubois, Wyo., largely so that she can be with her sister's two eldest children, Alice, 13, and Joe, 17, who she hopes will run Newsday some...
Though he aims at being the man in the middle, Cullen thinks he has not quite hit it yet: "A few years ago, I was pretty disagreeable. To avoid the drooling, I'd bite 'em. I did it too much. Groucho Marx can get away with it but me. I couldn't. I'm not that good." But if he has to choose, Cullen would rather be snide than syrupy. He has had to lick another tendency-overenthusiasm: "You know. Bert Parks and John Reed King started this routine of building up a climax and shouting...
...Manets, two Monets, seven Modiglianis, ten Toulouse-Lautrecs, eleven Renoirs, four Van Goghs, five Ceézannes, two Gauguins, two Picassos and such masters as Bellini, Mantegna, Memling, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens and Valasquez. Most of these possessions are a result of Chato's winning way of putting the bite on other people for money...
...Soviets also promised to return the eleven tons of gold they have owed the National Bank of Iran since World War II. With cynicism born of long experience, Teheran sat back, waited for the gift horse to bite...
...Minneapolis and St. Paul, near the start of the eclipse, the sun rose in a clear sky with a small bite of its bright disk already nibbled away by the moon. Early risers, on roofs or in parks, had a perfect view of totality, with all the weird effects that they had been reading about. But the scientists were taking no chances. One group, led by Dr. Donald Menzel, head of the Harvard College Observatory, took spectroscopic motion pictures from a high-flying Stratocruiser. A task force from the University of Chicago pictured the sun's glowing corona with...