Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. We have been called useless, incompetent and removed from the concerns of students. Many undergraduates have no idea who their council representatives are or what exactly the council does every Sunday night at 7 p.m. The average students' only contact with the council is during a quick bite of a fly-by lunch on a weekday afternoon, although some students are probably even unaware that fly-by was the accomplishment of a council member...
Many first-years, on the other hand, prefer value and efficiency when deciding where to grab a late-night bite...
...daunting as that seems, imagine that up to 30% of the text consists of nearly identical strings of words up to 7,000 letters long. Assembling these "repeat sequences," says the genome project's Francis Collins, is "a challenge to anyone who doesn't break it down into bite-size pieces...
...able to turn the crosscurrents of race and religion in the South into mass entertainment before (Driving Miss Daisy, The Last Night of Ballyhoo). Indeed, Parade, which just opened at Lincoln Center, is the kind of ambitious musical that can sometimes soar to greatness. It certainly takes a healthy bite out of a juicy story. It relates the case to the South's effort to heal the schisms of the Civil War (in an opening flashback, a Confederate soldier sings of home); portrays the tensions between Frank, a transplanted New Yorker, and his more assimilated Southern-Jewish wife Lucille...
...there had been a TV show Andrew Johnson: Presidency in Crisis, New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley would have been the star. Greeley, king of the pro-impeachment sound bite, called Johnson "an aching tooth in the national jaw, a screeching infant in a crowded lecture room," and said, "There can be no peace or comfort till he is out." And plenty of Congressmen would happily have offered up the 19th century version of talk-show rant. One Republican Representative denounced Johnson as "an ungrateful, despicable, besotted traitorous man--an incubus." Be grateful, Bill Clinton...