Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Found only in the warmer parts of the Americas, Desmodus rotundus feeds exclusively on blood. The bite of a non-rabid vampire ordinarily does a human victim no serious harm, but rabid vampires are deadly. Derriengue, like other forms of rabies, can be prevented by vaccination...
...that business was sagging, and the reasons were equally plain. Nobody put them more sharply than General Mills' Chairman Harry A. Bullis: "This slackening was caused by three factors every man and woman and high school boy or girl knows about-the recent heavy income-tax collections, the bite of credit restrictions and the unusually large accumulated inventories left when the big bad wolf of scare-buying sneaked back to his lair." Bullis was not alarmed. "Except for tightened credit," said he, "these deflationary forces should end about the first of July...
...Their bark is louder than their bite," one Yard cop said. "I heard the fire-crackers all the way over on Francis Avenue, near Somerville." He added "the proctors are the ones who should get in trouble for not trying to quell the riot, and not students...
...stories are written in a firm, never brilliant, always individual style. In the sudden bite of his insights, Storyteller Stern somewhat suggests Chekhov, but Chekhov with his back teeth pulled. He bites, but he doesn't chew his ideas as fine as they deserve...
...portraits are generally of Fazzini's friends, carved as gifts to the sitter. Unflattering, they have some of the force and bite of the best old Roman busts. His apparent method is to catch a friend's fleeting but typical expression, as the camera can, and emphasize it almost to the point of caricature...