Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...council's arithmetic, the future bite schedule enacted by Congress last year-providing for a gradual increase to 4½% of the first $4,800 of income by 1969-"makes adequate provision" for estimated future payments. This year OASI will pay out $9.7 billion, around $1 billion more than it takes in, but it will still have nearly $21 billion in the kitty, and from 1960 on, income is expected to exceed outgo "every year for many years into the future." The advisory council's real worry is that creeping inflation might make the payments worth disappointingly little...
...dead bite...
...started out on horseback, had switched to tanks by World War II; last year at Fort Rucker, he took over the whirring, still-experimental cavalry of the sky. The general loved his "choppers," once said: "Like Wellington's cavalry, the helicopter can strike like a wolfpack and bite. It can slice and run, pull back and hit the other side. A chopper can be as low as a man on a horse...
...change for the Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan. The tone of most of their work is one of wit and buffoonery laced with pathos; Yeomen features pathos laced with buffoonery and very little wit. Since Gilbert's wit is pointed, while his pathos is pretty but quite lacking in real bite, Yeomen is not the Messrs.' best work. But since Sullivan's music is, as always, pleasant to the point of bewitchment; since Gilbert's buffoonery is of a very high grade; and since the pathetic moments can be quite touching, why complain...
...fellow passengers ("Do you know me? . . . I'm F. Scott Fitzgerald. You've read my books. You've read The Great Gatsby, haven't you? Remember?"); Fitzgerald insisting on being spoon-fed by Esquire Editor Arnold Gingrich and spewing up coffee and trying to bite Gingrich's hand during the feeding; Fitzgerald goading a friend into punching him, and upon being lightly tapped mumbling bitterly to himself, "That big, hulking brute-and me dying of tuberculosis"; Fitzgerald entangled in his pajamas waking in terror at the thought that his arms are paralyzed. Sheilah could...