Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...securely steadied by electronically controlled ballast and nine anchors while its drill probes into the sea bottom 340 ft. below. Already the drill is bringing up samples from 2,000 ft. below the shelf. The samples are carefully analyzed for hints of oil, but the drill may have to bite as deep as 17,000 ft. to find a real gusher. The rig itself costs upward of $20 million to build and more than $45,000 a day to operate...
Serpico is an energetic melodrama, with just enough realistic bite to shine against its current rivals. Its entertainment values hide a sour joke: one of the few heroic stories of our time has been filmed by men who lack their hero's passionate commitment to advance righteous endeavors to the necessary ends...
...doctor must have made! Two "very English" people sitting in his slightly shabby London study every evening at 5. The doctor was a sixtyish man with white hair, "really quite a cross person." But where she was concerned, he had the patience to endure tantrums during which she might bite his drinking glasses, break his furniture or tear up a favorite book. Once she stripped. Englishman and Englishwoman both agreed the performance was "boring...
...budding hockey fan, I used to take in the classic confrontation between the Ivy rivals in the ancient Arena. It was always a rout for the good guys. Probably the only thing Yale came away with was a few cases of rat bite from the Arena locker rooms...
...March 2 the cost of mailing a first-class letter will go up from 8? to a dime, an increase of 25%. Most Americans will feel that bite of inflation at once, but another may go unnoticed at first. On the same day, a new jump in second-class postal rates, which affect magazines and newspapers, will take effect. This increment is the first installment of a 40% rise to be spread over the next 28 months. It comes on top of a fiveyear, 145% rate hike begun in 1971. The new increase, being imposed on a compound basis, means...