Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...putting its bad apples at the top of the barrel and its milk of human kindness inside Pernod bottles, Irma La Douce endows its harmless story with a nice tingle of iniquity, even a certain mixture of sweetness and bite. Now and then the gags and goings-on go sour, or the story droops: Nestor-Oscar, for example, outwears its welcome. But under Peter Brook's brilliant direction, most of Irma moves remarkably fast, with the advisable speed of things outside the law and people on the lam-or it kicks its heels with Parisian verve and pertness. Marguerite...
...this, said Nixon, would cost the U.S. more at first, but "we must, and should be willing to pay more in order to take a big bite out of the surplus" by a target date four years hence. "No more exciting challenge will confront the next President and his Administration than that of making a national asset, rather than a liability, out of our nation's ability to produce more food and fiber than any other people on earth...
...nylon," it experimented for twelve years, spent $50 million before it found Delrin, a formaldehyde plastic with many of the properties of nylon that can be made at considerably less cost. Put on the market about a year ago, Delrin has already started to take a big bite out of the metal industry. In 1961 Chrysler Valiant will sport a Delrin instrument panel, the biggest single automotive use of unreinforced plastic. Several oil companies have bought Delrin pipes for oilfield use. It has already been incorporated in some 270 products, from aerosol bottles to zippers. Manufacturers' requests...
...from Red China, and perhaps $12 million from Russia. To keep himself from being compromised, Sihanouk, after each Western gift, generally scampers off to Peking or Moscow for an offsetting Red handout. Last week, in a dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Sihanouk unveiled a second rule of aidmanship: always bite the hand that feeds...
...team from Levittown, Pa. that baseball was anything but fun. Even when Levittown landed in the world series tournament in Williamsport, Pa., the kids still acted like kids. They swirled through free-for-alls, were sent to their rooms for pinching each other on the neck ("cow bite") or on the calf ("shark bite"). Said Little League Research Director Dr. Creighton Hale: "We've never seen anything like this light-hearted Levittown team...