Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faces inflation's crudest bite is the U.S. homebuilder who starts off in search of land for his dream house...
...pressagent. He discourages authors and agents. The firm invents most of its subjects, then cuts its risk with businesslike efficiency: it sends out form letters asking prospective customers if they would like to inspect a new book for a 30-day, money-back trial. If enough patrons of literature bite. Giniger commissions a ghost (often British, for lower fee and better prose) to write the book. If not, the idea is killed, polite regrets are issued to the folks...
...balletic exuberance of Bernstein or the smooth elegance of Sir Adrian Boult or the icily imperious quality of Reiner. Nor are his performances flamboyantly colored: where Beecham's Mozart tends to be effusively loving, Davis' is simple end unaffected. He combines grace with precision, gravity with rhythmic bite...
...Foundation and sev eral much smaller charities (also untaxable). Some $5,000,000 went to pay o"f debts, all taxes, administration expenses and lawyers. All that was left to tax was some $775,000, out of which the federal tax-types got a miserly $198,552 as top bite. The French Republic got an unspeakable $1.02 as last lick. The New York appraisal also brought to light the makeup of Astor's investment portfolio. His biggest holding was in Newsweek, Inc., of which he owned 177,200 shares, valued at $4,857,052 by the state appraisers. Since...
Ever since Pasteur made his epochal discovery that inactive virus could give protection against rabies, thousands of bite victims each year have started the course of 14 shots. Many have quit because of severe and painful allergic reactions. Worse, the injections carried the danger of fatal encephalitis or paralysis, because they contained material from rabbit brains. Last week researchers in New York City's Department of Health reported that a modified vaccine made by growing the virus in fertilized duck eggs gives quicker protection, is safer and causes few unpleasant reactions...