Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year the menu looks just as tantalizing and the chance of the Crimson dominating the Sprints just as likely. The two crews which hope to outrow Harvard for a taste of the title are Penn and Dartmouth. The latter has already fallen to the bite of the lightweight's oars...
When Lundy took the second set and the match, 7-5, the Tigers' roar began to look much more fierce than their bite...
...political satire of the book is also clever and facile. The portrait of Giovanni Leone (whom the author envisions as still president of the Italy of 1980 in which the coup occurs) is condescending but sympathetic. The bite of the satire is playful; Leone is irritated by the noise of electric guitars because he "was himself . . . a great connoisseur of Neapolitan songs." Reactionary forms of music, Neapolitan songs have all the melodrama "Italy" suggests...
...this collection of emotional still lifes seemed too pallid for the English stage, so Travers retired to the seaside to watch cricket. But when he was well into his 80s he decided to try again, and succeeded in broadening his vision and style without losing his comic bite, a feat that eluded even Bernard Shaw in his declining years...
...didn't take the Radcliffe tennis team very long to recover from the 8-1 bite the Yale Bulldogs gave it on Saturday, as it easily munched on a weak team from Connecticut College yesterday...