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Word: bitingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monkey's emotions, but the hippocampal region (midway between the ears) is an exception. An electric tickle there turned a ferocious rhesus into a macaque Milquetoast; he even let Dr. Delgado take the liberty of stroking his face. The moment the current was turned off, he tried to bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ocean of the Mind | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...good topical musical. Now as an historical motion picture, it is even better. For Call Me Madam was filmed as a part of the past--1951, when Harry Truman was entrenched in the White House and Perle Mesta rampant in Luxembourg. As contemporary satire, the Broadway version lacked bite; now, as a glossy tuneful bit of history, the film lacks nothing...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Call Me Madam | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

There's no need 40 rely on that overworked standby--the pearl. Be original! Be sporting! Why not amble into a sporting goods store and deck your ears with a realistic fish spinner, in sparkling cubist colors--guaranteed to get any date to bite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Accessories Range From Original to Incredible | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...independent people and they would not want to have their election supervised by others." When Churchill mentioned the Vatican, Stalin asked: "How many divisions has the Pope got?" Reported Churchill later: "Stalin said the Russians did not want anything belonging to other people, although they might have a bite at Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death In The Kremlin: Killer of the Masses | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

...typewritten pages, the Guatemalan government's land-reform administration last week told the U.S.-owned United Fruit Co. that the government will expropriate 225,000 acres of the company's 300,000-acre plantations at Tiquisate (TIME, March 2). Included in the bite: 125,000 acres of woods and brush, 87,000 acres leased to others for cattle and crops, and 12,000 acres lent by the company to its workers to grow corn and beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Expropriation | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

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