Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after night she would eat her supper on a tray, alone by the fire. But once the children were up next morning, the loneliness vanished. No boy could ever be more splendid than her "young gentleman," and no girl more dainty than her "young lady." Her children did not bite nails, climb trees or throw naughty tantrums. If they did, there could be a paddy whack on the "sit-upon." But when sickness fell, it was nanny who sat by the bedside all night. In 1946, when the famed Alah died after being nanny to the Queen Mother, the Queen...
...passed from human greed to something at times no prettier but much more universalizing: human need, the ego's fierce need to be needed and be loved, and hence its ugly need, when foiled, to hurt or betray or destroy. In Toys it is not vixen teeth that bite, but human lips denied a kiss...
...Quick Bite. In Phoenix, Ariz., while practicing a quick draw with his pistol during lunch hour, Warehouseman Richard Sullins shot himself...
...their icy, refined, half-mad sense of justice, and the American, with his coldhearted dog-eat-dog view of life, face one another with contrasted inhumanity; the space between them seems nothing less at times than all groping humanity itself. But the play has a parlor-game brittleness and bite, and at its best a thrusting theatricality. Adapter Yaffe needs half an evening of won't-you-walk-into-my-parlor? before he is ready with his parlor game; and is perhaps overready to have his American convict himself, to create another death of a salesman. Even with good...
Many a U.S. manufacturer has hungrily eyed the underdeveloped British TV-phonograph market: only 65% of all British households have TV sets, v. 90% in the U.S. But the market is tough to bite into; purchase taxes and distribution costs are high. Philco sold its British subsidiary after trying; other major U.S. manufacturers shied away. Last week Magnavox Co. announced that it will go out after the British market in force...