Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virginia's Harry Byrd, 75, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, had been ailing for weeks, and Washingtonians freely surmised that the old budget watchdog had lost not only his bite, but also his bark. Little did they know. Last week Byrd came out roaring like a lion after reading in the Washington Post that "Budget Director Kermit Gordon told a congressional committee yesterday that a balanced budget would lead to increased unemployment, higher taxes and a general economic decline...
...large, his public ignored the Frost who quarreled with the world. They knew and praised instead the Frost who was a praiser of country things-the joy in swinging birches or treading leaves, the ornery bite of a grindstone against an ax blade, the road not taken, those woods lovely, dark and deep. For readers who like to shake a poem as children shake a piggy bank until the coin of meaning jingles out. Frost had pots of jingly messages. "Good fences make good neighbors." he said, and many a listener never noticed that he contraposed this with: "Something there...
...then a girl stares fixedly at another girl-but women are forever looking at each other's clothes. Once the handsome villain (Stanley Baker), trying hard to look immoral, nibbles on his sister's finger-but he just looks like a guy who likes to bite other people's nails. Stewart Granger looks a Lot too English, but at least he doesn't have to pronounce the picture's most ludicrous line. "Greetings!" cries the Queen of Sodom (Anouk Aimee) to her victorious troops. "Greetings, Hebrews and Sodomites...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 22--Sweeping curtainment of individual deductions will bite deeply into the income tax savings to be proposed by President Kennedy in his special tax message to Congress Thursday...
...more. Their adjusted gross income added up to $611,273,000, their total income tax to $280,525,000, or an average of about 45%?a lot less than might be expected from the rate schedules. And that 45% average actually overstates the tax bite because the adjusted gross income figures included only 50% of the taxpayers' long-term capital gains, and none of their income from tax exempt bonds...