Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Away from the path of totality, the sun will seem to shine almost as brightly as usual, but if it is looked at through a dense filter (smoked glass or an overexposed photographic negative), it will show a bite taken out of its disk. At St. Louis the moon will cover a maximum 85% of the sun's surface, at New York 74%, at Columbia, S.C. 65%. Total time between the beginning and the end of the unusual show will be about two hours...
...more than a year, one Enrico de Toma, a young last-ditch Italian fascist living in exile across the Swiss border, had tried to peddle these letters to various publishers. None would bite, for they had been denounced as fakes and forgeries by everybody involved, including Winston Churchill and Alcide de Gasperi. But such denunciations did not deter wealthy Publisher Angelo Rizzoli, who is Italy's most unclassifiable political figure. Signer Rizzoli publishes Candido, a savagely satirical weekly edited by right-wing Novelist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camillo) Guareschi; Oggi, a slightly milder weekly with Monarchist politics...
...France had reason to detest La Pompadour. The flowers in her many gardens "were renewed every day, as we renew them now in a room" (the greenhouses at Trianon alone held 2,000,000 pots). At her town house in Paris, she thought nothing of taking "a big bite into the Champs Elysées for her kitchen garden" (it would have been much bigger if Parisians had not burst out in a storm of rage). The secret police were in her pocket. In affairs of state, "nothing was decided without her knowledge"; in the Seven Years...
...Evidence. In Coventry, Conn., Insurance-Claims Adjuster John Van Housen arrived at the home of Patricia Reckard to investigate a claim resulting from a dog bite, was bitten by the same...
Bark Worse Than Bite. Sinatra rejected so many tunes, in fact, that his worried business managers began hounding him to accept one. "Finally I told them: 'The next song Mitch suggests, I do.' You know what it was? Mama Will Bark-and I sang it with Dagmar. I growled and I barked on the record, and I guess it sold, but the only good it did me was with the dogs...