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Word: bitingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turks in the Well. The Clooney voice is known to the trade as both "barrelhouse" and blue, i.e., robust and fresh, with an undercurrent of seductiveness. It can spin out a slow tune with almost cello-like evenness, or take on a raucous bite in a fast rhythm. In a melancholy mood, it has a cinnamon flavor that tends to remind fans of happier days gone by-or soon to come. Moreover, thanks to the malocclusion of the Clooney jaw, her voice carries just a hint of a lisp. A word like "kiss" comes out a bit like "kish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Girl in the Groove | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...always good to be made aware that others have problems too and to learn how they overcome and master them. 'Bite where the apple is good' [Lemelin's expression]-I shall start biting very hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...years he searched, visiting savage coasts and coral islands. He almost lost an arm to a loft. shark, was nipped by a poisonous fish. "I was stung, stabbed and bitten," he recalls, "by fishes, fishes, and still more fishes." But never a coelacanth rose to bite him with its catlike teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: African Ancestor | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...cancan dancers come on in the heat and haze of the Moulin Rouge in a swirl of black silk stockings and white lace petticoats. At its visual best, the picture is a Lautrec painting come to life: it has the nervous, whip-cracking line, the absinthe bite, the very color of corruption of Lautrec's Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...JUNE-The Bite. In Hof, Germany, Brewery Worker Karl Wunderlich, 24, was convicted of breaking into a delicatessen after police fitted his teeth to marks left in the end of a 2-lb. salami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 29, 1952 | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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