Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempt to hold wage boosts to 10% above pre-Korea levels, adopted a new formula, under the new controls law, permitting them to rise with any new rise in the cost of living. The real inflation test will come in the fall, when rearmament begins to take its bite out of consumer goods. For the moment at least, the economy seems to have reached a state of balance-uneasy, perhaps, but nevertheless balanced...
...reason: philosophers no longer have a common ground for argument. "Fifty years ago, your characteristic atheist...was as clear as you were about what it was he was denying when he said there was no God and what you were asserting when you said there was. Now...the bite of argument is gone: and the atheist or skeptic will say, 'I don't know what you are talking about. You are asking questions that need not be asked...
...learn more about the jungle carrier, sanitary experts have set up dozens of forest stations in Panama. There, well vaccinated Indians display themselves on outdoor platforms, invite mosquitoes to bite them and be trapped for science. Well paid by Panama standards ($70 to $90 a month), the Indians consider it nice work...
...foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often rather scientific, of life in a strange new world, where parrots bite radio aerials and a waiting breakfast is picked off the decks at daybreak. Unless you are the squeamish type who shrieks at the sight of a whale, you will enjoy "Kon-Tiki" well abaft of the edge of your chair...
...high kick, his wit surpassed his exuberance, his knowledge of the human figure equaled his delight in it, and his touch was light as lace. He designed as well as the Japanese woodcut artists whom he most admired, and for their warm-milk sentimentality he substituted an absinthe bite...