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Word: bitingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun and that their world might be sacrificed to it, and tried to understand what might have to be done. Russia-apparently in all U.S. minds-was the real villain, the real and terrible foe. Said Detroit Salesman Zacharias Cosmas: "Hit the main Bolsheviks. The tail won't bite if you hit the head." Said New Orleans Policeman Ernest F. Curtis: "We should declare war on Russia officially and then drop all the A-bombs we can on her." But most people didn't talk that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Face of Mars | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...National Production Authority, which for some time has been nibbling at the civilian use of various scarce materials, last week took the biggest bite yet. It ordered a 15% cut in non-defense copper for the first two months of 1951, and a 20% cut for March. Automen said the cut would mean a 10% slash in auto production in next year's first quarter because there was no practical substitute for copper in auto radiators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Bite | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Like its predecessor, Three Husbands tells its story in episodic flashbacks, straightens out its tangled problems with a surprise twist-which comes now as not much of a surprise. The movie suffers not only from familiarity but from lack of the characterization, humorous bite and thoughtful undertones that lifted the earlier film out of the ruck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1950 | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...staff he abandoned plans to appear personally before a joint session. But he sent word by his leaders that he wanted: statehood for Alaska and Hawaii; $14 billion more for defense, for a total this year of $43 billion; a $4 billion tax bill with a 75% bite on excess profits (see BUSINESS); $250 million more for the H-bomb; extension of rent control, which expires on Dec. 31, unless Congress acts; and up to $75 million to feed Tito (see above). It was a program to keep even a regular session at work for months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Final Fling | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for energy and aggressiveness. Say his colleagues: "Il a beaucoup de mordant" (He has plenty of bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Plenty of Bite? | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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