Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspicion is beginning to grow that there is something wrong with this idea. Down in Australia an eminent economist named Colin Clark has been studying high-tax countries (of which his is one). He finds that the effect of taxes changes when the tax bite rises above 25% of the national income. Taxation has always been considered deflationary, i.e., it saps up "excess purchasing power," and keeps demand from exceeding supply. Beyond 25%, however, Clark thinks that the tax bite is inflationary. The number of dollars in the national income increases faster than the amount of goods. Prices...
...windows. Tense and motionless at the long bar stands a frieze of deputies and desperadoes. Even the bearded comic for once is solemn and wary. For this is the moment when virtue - lean, clean, manly, and quick on the draw - must face evil in single combat, to triumph or bite the dust...
...cavalry charge or a crinolined cocotte. As a war correspondent in the Crimea, he turned out sheaves of detailed drawings of battles and camp life. As a Parisian artist-about-town, he caught the elegant manners and shady morals of his contemporaries. Although he lacked Daumier's satiric bite and Rowlandson's ribald bounce, Guys's quick eye and facile technique made him one of Europe's ablest 19th century reporters. Last week, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, some of the best of Guys's reporting was on display in a Paris...
...anybody know why a victim thinks his teeth are loose when they are not. In fact, there are plenty of mysteries about ichthyotoxism, and the chief of them is that doctors do not really know what causes ichthyotoxism. It is not to be confused with poisoning caused by the bite of a venomous fish, however, or by eating stale fish in which bacteria have been at work. It comes from eating fresh, healthy fish, of species that have been used as food for generations, e.g., the amberjack that poisoned the naval officer...
...keyboard that counted. Garner sometimes plays with a relaxed but rollicking bounce, his right hand dallying attractively behind the foot-tapping beat of his left. Other times he just gets slow and dreamy, playing around the melody a lot of quiet chords that have just enough bite to keep the customers awake; but this harmonic fabric makes many another jazz thumper sound either flat or fussy. Says he: "I just play what I feel. Suddenly I hit a groove that moves me, and then I take off. I don't worry about how it'll come...