Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although all of those matters could yet produce a deadlock, Washington still expects substantial progress in this week's resumed secret negotiations. More consultations with Thieu presumably will follow this-and that is when the tough South Vietnamese President apparently will have to bite the bullet and either go along with the accords or watch the U.S. sign without him. He has been warned that a Democratic Congress is not likely to vote any more funds for his government if he holds out, although if he is convinced that the agreement would lead to his demise anyway, this would...
...Bites. Their business, at that point, was rioting. Armed with tie-down chains, clubs, knives and tools, groups of both whites and blacks rampaged through the berthing quarters of the ship. When the fighting subsided six hours later, 40 whites and six blacks were injured. During the fight, one black was struggling with a white Marine when the Marine took a bite out of the black's leg. "If a black comes in here with a human bite on his leg, I want to know about it," the Marine told a hospital corpsman later. A black did show...
GAEL GREENE, restaurant critic for New York magazine and author of Bite, a guide to dining...
...special vocabulary of serious tasters, wines can be "acid" (tart, sour, with the bite of natural fruit acids), "astringent" (puckery, like a cup of strong tea), or "balanced" (with just the right combination of acid, tannin and alcohol). They can be "big" (with a detectable heaviness on the tongue, not light or watery), "clean" (absent of extraneous tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with...
...bitter chorale in which the saxophones seems to be playing Bach just a little out of tune--sets the mood, and then things really get underway with the Moritat, better known as "Mack the Knife." If you have only heard Mantovani versions, you can have no idea what bite this song has. Stephen Schmidt, the conductor, puts it across beautifully, although the band has an occasional ragged moment later...