Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yacht, capable of 54 knots at top speed. But Mercury gobbled gas at the rate of 115 gallons an hour, the radar went snafu, and two of the three 3,500-h.p. gas turbine engines had to be replaced. "Teething troubles," said the British builder. Feeling the bite himself, the thrifty Greek docked his hot yacht and looked for a buyer...
...problem, of course. Both Milty and one of his assistants got their starts by working with the Baumanns. Milty was a colleague of theirs at Jack and Marion's, moved on with them when they founded their own shop. And Milty is anxious not to bite the hands that set him on his feet. "I wouldn't want to take business from them," he says, and adds quickly. "But then I couldn't. Elsie is Elsie...
AWARE, Inc.'s shadowy terrorism once had the entire television industry quivering in fear, but until the Faulk case no one had ever had the courage to bite back. Faulk's attorney was Louis Nizer, who had earlier helped Quentin Reynolds win a $175,001 verdict in his 1954 suit against Columnist Westbrook Pegler, the highest award ever made by a jury in a libel case...
...Philosopher Bertrand Russell is in no mood to waste words. His latest work, History of the World in Epitome, is an eleven-page, bite-sized pamphlet published by London's oddball Gaberbocchus Press. It consists of a page with seven words, a drawing of the Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple...
Stanley White ordered Carpenter to stop using his rubber exerciser, told him to take plenty of water. He had no trouble drinking, although some of his bite-size food cubes crumbled, freeing particles to drift around the cabin...