Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gropper Art Galleries--had at one time been used as a police gymnasium. Several theatre groups have had their ups and downs in the building, of which probably the best-remembered was the late and occasionally lamented (except by the handful of Cambridge citizens who were badly "bitten" in frequent drives for money) Brattle Theatre Company, which staged 58 plays in the period 1948-52. Bryant Halliday '49 was general manager of the Brattle Theatre Company's last legitimate season in the summer of 1952, and his part- ner, Cyrus I. Harvey Jr. '47, had also been connected with...
...Burning Hut. That afternoon the bloody scene was repeated again as more police, accompanied by a civilian posse of 150, bore down on the villagers. A civilian, armed with a gun, was beaten to death. The officer in charge was knocked to the ground and bitten by angry villagers as he lay dying...
...when pinned down, Humphrey said: "This budget was made up with the very greatest care. This is apparently the best we can do at the present time." Underlying this reluctant admission by so hard-bitten a foe of big budgets was one of the really important facts of the 1950s: the Republicans who went to Washington four years ago, expecting to shrink Big Government drastically, now find themselves caught up in the New Republicanism that tacitly accepts Big Government as a necessity imposed by the political and social realities of life in the mid-century...
...such nostrums are useless, as is the classic remedy, whisky, which Klauber thinks has killed many snakebite victims who would have recovered if left untreated. The only effective drug is antivenin, which must be used with care. Best first-aid treatment is a ligature or tourniquet to isolate the bitten part of the body. The wound should be enlarged to promote bleeding, and as much of the poison as possible should be sucked out of it. Then the patient should be taken to a doctor...
Only about 1,000 Americans a year are bitten by rattlesnakes, and of these only 30 die. But this record, says Klauber, should not encourage amateurs to get familiar with rattlesnakes. Even men who handle them professionally, he says, are often bitten. An apparently dead rattlesnake should never be touched carelessly; it may revive and strike. Even a severed head can bite for half an hour...