Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forays into reminiscence and self-accounting reveal, Rockefeller's in 72 pages and four days before the white-hot television lights of the Senate Rules Committee, Lamont's in a little-noticed collection of essays entitled Voice in the Wilderness, it's harder than the average communist thinks to bite the trust fund that feeds...
...long insects are already more than a picnic annoyance: they abound in the area, living in trees and leaping out to bite intruders. More important, the ants at Gabo Djang are believed by the aborigines to be descendants of the godlike Great Green Ant. They revere the great ant as one of the spiritual beings who established all the patterns of human life and can still influence them for good...
...pervasive neon light as you are sucked further into the maze, past Fine Arts, past Sociology. You find yourself in front of Government 116 with its concise, peremptory title--Socialism. As Marx and Lenin stare out at you from behind hortatory covers, you shudder at the sudden bite of the thick moist air settling in the wintry streets of a European capital. The three-story facades of workers' houses are depressing in their black-sooted brick, and the smoke emanating from the stack of a nearby factory leaves an acrid smell in the air. Leaflets are being passed...
...distance as well as to the known accomplished fact [of the Turkish presence]." In Ankara, the Turks had prepared for a Greek attack, though they-and foreign military observers-considered it would be a suicidal move. "We knew that any dog pushed into a corner would bark and bite," said one Turkish official with chatty insouciance. "Now we see that Greece was not really pushed into a corner...
...Greeks wanted to bite anyone-anyone besides Turkey, that is-it was the U.S., which, in Athens' view, had betrayed it in its most desperate hour. The decision to withdraw Greek military forces from NATO, a move specifically directed against Washington as the leader of the alliance, was immensely and immediately popular in Greece, and served as something of a diversion to Greek humiliation at the hands of Turkey. Almost everywhere throughout the country a virulent anti-American mood was evident. Several hundred people demonstrated against the U.S. in downtown Athens, police were called in to guard the American...