Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gradually rising and circling in counterclockwise motion as a drop in atmospheric pressure sucked layers of cooler air in beneath it. The weather men named the mass Flora-sixth hurricane of the 1963 season-and commenced the routine precautions that in recent years have taken some of the bite out of the fierce storms: hurricane-hunter planes to check course, speed, wind velocity, intensity of the rain; detailed advisories and instructions to everyone in the storm's path. But in one of those violent quirks of nature, incredibly compounded by man, all the warnings proved futile. By the time...
...year giant with more than enough wheat capacity to handle the entire sale of 150 million bushels to Russia. Despite its size and predominance, it will have to be content with somewhat less than that-the Administration has declared that no company can have more than a 25% bite of the deal...
...time. In the backstretch, Carry Back began to challenge, but Kelso moved alongside-and Carry Back wilted. Valenzuela clucked to Kel so, and the champion went after Never Bend. For a few brief seconds the two horses raced head to head. Then Never Bend bent. Without ever feeling the bite of Valenzuela's whip, Kelso drew away, galloped to an easy, 31-length victory. The richest horse racing anywhere in the world had added another $70,720 to his bankroll...
When New Zealander Low came to London after the first World War, he found the art of newspaper cartooning still mired in Victorian politeness, with no more bite to it than a cup of cambric tea. "It was thought scandalous to hold statesmen up to ridicule," said Low, and he proceeded to do just that for the London Evening Star, scandalizing statesmen, his editor and the United Kingdom. "Ah well," he said to early protesters. "I am a nuisance dedicated to sanity...
...British general praying to God for victory "before the Americans come." Also, using thirty-one songs from the war period, although an effective stimulant to nostalgia, reduces the area of irony so important to satire, leaving the worn jokes and mesmerizing slides and lights. Basically, Brecht with little bite...