Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most powerful man in Britain. As Chancellor of the Exchequer and Minister for Economic Affairs, he ruled the cupboard, stomach and pocketbook of every Briton. Prim and trim, he peered coldly through half-moon glasses, wore a smile that looked like the result of a bite from a persimmon, seemed always to be telling fuel-short Britons to take cold baths (as he had done every day for years). He was Mr. Austerity. Actually, Stafford Cripps was affable, friendly, generous. Britons knew he was doing a grim job that had to be done. He checked inflation, cut back the dollar...
Caroline never lacks for playmates. When a "young giant" of a stagecoach driver hides her in a hayloft, she senses that he is "in no mood for preliminaries." Moments later, "a thousand tiny spears of hay [bite] into her bare thighs." At novel's end, sans husband or other encumbering alliances, Caroline cheats the guillotine by dressing up in a sailor suit and reporting for duty on a French frigate bound for America...
...Bite (Ruminations...
...back their bark with a bite, the authorities will remove from the Student Employment Bureau list the names of families who habitually return too late...
Experts believe that epizootics of rabies are largely a result of over-population among certain animals. When foxes, for instance, get too thick, those that have got the disease from an outside source can find many others to bite and infect before they die. When the population thins out, rabies becomes rare because its victims die in solitude without spreading the disease...