Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bite. In Buhl, Idaho, Albert Hansen handed over a $10 fine court costs, an attorney fee and upper & lower dentures after pleading guilty to his wife's complaint of stealing her false teeth...
...pictures cannot be judged by any taste test; it is their emotional impact that matters. Ponderous and muddy though Koerner's art can be, it has all the weight and bite of a steam shovel. Where, when and how did he develop the steam...
Nevertheless, by last week underdog Argosy was barking on True's trail, as if it were about to bite. Argosy Editor Jerry Mason, 36, claimed that his January issue had topped the 1,000,000 mark in sales (the guarantee: 750,000). Like True, Argosy was once a pulp, which boasted such bylines as Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard; but its fortunes and circulation had ebbed. Then Popular Publications took over, turned it into a slick, and it started up. Last April, Mason, onetime associate editor of the Sunday supplement This Week, moved in. He borrowed some...
...bulldozers and diesel-engined tractors it expected to buy in the U.S. and Canada, Great Britain's Colonial Development Corp. last fall asked the World Bank for a $5,000,000 loan. C.D.C. officials, who considered that sum merely "the first bite of the cherry," indicated they might later ask the World Bank for as much as $100 million...
...learn Latin and Greek, only English. "Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence-which is a noble thing." He is grateful to Harrow, and tries to be fair: "Harrow was a very good school." But Churchill cannot refrain from one last bite: "Most of the boys were very happy, and many found in its classrooms and upon its playing-fields the greatest distinction they have ever known in life...