Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard-bitten French air force intelligence officers in North Africa it was the perfect chance to score a coup that might shorten Algeria's long and bloody war. Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco, with the unofficial blessing of Socialist Guy Mollet's government, had invited top Algerian rebel chieftains from their Cairo headquarters to Rabat to talk peace terms with him. Then they would fly to Tunis for discussions with moderate Tunisian Premier Habib Bourguiba. A daring plan occurred to the officers: Why not kidnap the Algerian rebels' high command in midair...
...care of their young. The rattle is a simple warning, not a love call, and males take only the briefest interest in the females. But male rattlesnakes have the odd custom of "wrestling" together, swaying their heads and bodies with a graceful rhythmic motion. The defeated snake is never bitten or otherwise hurt. Klauber is not sure of the purpose of the wrestling match. He thinks it may have some connection with mating, but admits that the emotions of rattlesnakes are hard to analyze...
...short (5 ft. 5 in.), pudgy man with a disarming grin. "My name is Sam Lubell," he said, "and I'm trying to report the political campaign by talking to the voters." For his pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather with scholarly insight, he predicted both the Eisenhower victory ("possibly by a landslide...
Only a flat, last-minute, wildly improbable turndown by the top man could have beaten him, but Richard Nixon was taking nothing for granted last week in his campaign for vice-presidential renomination. Chigger-bitten by Harold Stassen, stung by California Governor Goodwin Knight's bumblebee efforts against him (TIME, Aug. 27), Nixon spread political balm in San Francisco with a soothing hand. Like a busy doctor, he moved from room to room of his Mark Hopkins Hotel suite to talk to delegations-and before long, the traffic was so heavy that the only way the delegates could leave...
That is why there is so little left of it. Pilgrims through the centuries, drinking water from the Nanteos Cup to heal their ills (especially hemorrhages), have bitten off little pieces to increase the efficacy of the cure. Not only Roman Catholics but Anglicans and Free Churchmen seek healing from the relic, and letters are regularly received asking permission to drink from the cut-glass bowl in which the cup is embedded...