Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is a triangular consistency to good chop suey: there must be rice, for body and nutritional value; there must be vegetables, for crispness and good flavor; but there must also be meat cunning little bite-sine slices which hide among the rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
Ossie Solem, a pleasant middle-aged man who is head football coach at Springfield College, is subject to all the ulcerous worries that beset members of his profession--all worries, that is, save one. Ossie never has to bite his fingernails over how many reserves his team will have, for Springfield is a physical education college and everyone who is anyone plays football...
Lemelin came home on crutches, adopted the slogan "Bite the apple where it is still good," developed a technique of bicycling with one foot and changed his swimming style so he could swim three miles a day. In 1941 Lemelin got a job as office manager of his uncle's lumber mill. When he had saved $200, he went to a well-known Quebec surgeon, who suggested an operation for his leg. Meanwhile, Lemelin had been writing a novel, Au Pied de la Pente Douce (The Town Below), which he submitted to the provincial literary contest. The novel didn...
...been boosted without a strike, many a manufacturer with lagging sales would have been forced to absorb the raise. But with inventories cleaned out, the raise can now be passed on to consumers. Much of the lost civilian production will not be made up this year, since a big bite will be taken out of civilian goods to make up for the lost arms output. Beginning in the fourth quarter, said NPA, the military will boost its steel take by 50%, to about one-fifth of total output. In some grades it will be taking virtually the entire production...
...Bite. In the electrical industry, for example, Westinghouse reported a 19% rise in gross (to $357 million) and a slight gain in net (to $16 million). Giant General Electric, on the other hand, had a slight decline in sales and a 20% drop in profits to $28 million. The profit drop, said President Ralph Cordiner, resulted from G.E.'s high proportion of defense orders, on which profit margins are small. In all cases, the impact of taxes was enormous. Radio Corporation of America managed to boost sales 22% to a record $142 million, but was able to hike...