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Word: bitingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forced it to carry the interminably serialized memoirs of the great and near great that are a staple of British weekend reading, Berry insisted on brevity elsewhere. Last week's issue packed 19 stones on Page One, more than any of its competitors. Editorials are equally spare-ten bite-sized specimens-in refreshing contrast to the uncorseted "leaders" of some other Sunday papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News on Sunday | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...will be overwhelmingly re-elected president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at the union's Miami convention next month. But Jimmy is not the sort to take any chances: his headquarters admitted last week that an "independent" committee (headed by Hoffa lieutenants) had sent letters putting the bite on the union's 3,000 fulltime staff members for $25 each "to defray the election campaign expenses" of Jimmy and Secretary-Treasurer John English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Let's All Help Jimmy | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

There is also a class of teen-aged girls. "I tell them that no girl gets seduced if she doesn't want to. 'God gave you two hands,' I say. 'Slap the boy's face, then step on his foot and bite his nose. If after all that you still get into trouble, then you're just as guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The River Bishop | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...will be a patently aggressive act and will be regarded as such by us." He suggested that Kennedy should meet Khrushchev in a summit conference: "If Khrushchev assumes, because of some of the things that have occurred in the past few weeks, that our bark is worse than our bite, he may be tempted to push us too far. Thus he would precipitate the war neither he nor we want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: On the Road | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

Males, at least, are too weak to run or even walk to their neighborhood stores, but presumably viewers bite hard on the products hawked; stations have signed up avidly since Debbie's program was syndicated in September. Not long ago, Debbie, the divorced mother of a twelve-year-old boy, was part owner of a chain of unsuccessful reducing parlors and sole proprietor of a thoroughly successful figure (she says she had "a figure problem" once, after her son was born, but cured it with disciplined self-torture). She persuaded WHIO-TV in Dayton to pay her $20 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV: One, Two | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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