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Word: bitingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrible. She creates a Beatrice who is a wonderfully consistent, three dimensional person--an all too rare accomplishment for an amateur. But, tragically, her Beatrice is not the person Zindel wrote, and this throws the production off balance. She is too low-key, too gently humorous. She doesn't bite or sting, and doesn't build up the bitterness that brings her to cry at the end of the play, "I hate the World...

Author: By Kathy Garrett, | Title: Skeletons Have No Soul | 11/17/1973 | See Source »

...sits at one of the four tables in the small store. He stares down at the steaming anchovy-and-onion pizza. With a slow, deliberate move he tugs at a piece of pizza, lifts it to his mouth, and begins to chew it, savoring his solitude with each melancholy bite...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Make Mine With Mushrooms | 11/14/1973 | See Source »

PENN-YALE--The Quakers are smarting from last week's slap in the face by Harvard. Yale, of course, did not take kindly to a 24-13 thrashing by Dartmouth. Both teams have been filing their incisors for this one. They've got to kick, scratch and bite to stay alive in the Ivy title picture. The Quakers have sharper files. Penn 23, Yale...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 11/10/1973 | See Source »

...noise, tongue between his lips, and the feast begins. Kidneys bourguinon. Kidneys bordelaise. Crayfish a la Mozart. Each dish has an identity of its own, but the diners ignore all subtlety in order to concentrate more conscientiously on their suicidal quest. Marcello Mastroianni stuffs down six clams in one bite. Grubby fingers and grubby mouths attack roasted legs of fowl so greedily they would make Henry VIII blush...

Author: By Richard Shepro, | Title: Pumping the Stomach | 11/1/1973 | See Source »

...mere 15 hours, audaciously advancing straight into withering Syrian artillery fire. Terse and direct, Elazar is known by his Yugoslavian nickname, "Dado." He is also called "Bulldog," for, as one Israeli officer put it: "His bulldog fighting technique is to take a good big bite and then hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Tough New Commanders | 10/22/1973 | See Source »

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