Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention back in January when George McGovern, then only one Democratic aspirant among many, disclosed his financial assets. The balance sheet makes more interesting reading now, and not only because he is his party's standard bearer. His economic and tax proposals last week urged a deeper tax bite into capital gains from the sale of securities and property. Though he owns no stock, McGovern listed among his assets $190,000 in real estate and rental property, doubtless worth far more now than when he purchased them, the sale of which would net him profits that would be more...
...bite or bolt), She simplifies them to flowers...
...Office of Intergovernmental Relations, he has ingratiated himself with many Governors and mayors round the country, Democrats included, who credit him with fighting hard for revenue sharing. That does not mean they would like to see him become President, but at least they have learned that he does not bite -them, anyway. Higher roads are obviously available to the Vice President if he chooses to take them...
...many tragedies of World War I was that it ruined a generation of artists and poets on both sides of the trenches. For every minor cult figure like Rupert Brooke, polishing his gung-ho stanzas and dying of a mosquito bite en route to the Dardanelles, a dozen real poets like Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen were cut down. Georges Braque was shot and lived, but the war deprived the 20th century of the mature work of Franz Marc, August Macke, Egon Schiele, Gustav Klimt, Umberto Boccioni and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, as well as that of a young sculptor named...
Honor Tracy has made this comic territory so much her own that it no longer bears much resemblance to the Ireland on the map or in the daily headlines. Evening lacks the satiric bite of her earlier Irish novels, yet still provides diverting summer reading. But that creaking sound the reader notices may not be the hammock. It may be the plot...