Word: bitten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anywhere one turned in the road one was apt to see a bent old man and a stiff-necked little boy--trudging along a country road together or plodding along the mainstreet of a town. The world I am speaking of isn't the hard-bitten, monkey-trial world of East Tennessee that everybody knows about, but a gentler world...around Nashville which...to the first settlers...was known somewhat romantically, and ironically, and incorrectly even, as the Miro District...
...took the snake-bitten Wildcats only 0:28 to score as Bob Gould beat goalie Jim Craig, who was brilliant as he stopped 40 of the 46 shots he faced. But their lead was orief as the Terriers' Gary Fay tied it up less than a minute later...
...Bitten by Potomac fever, many are trying to stay in Washington. John Marsh, Ford's White House Counsellor, and ex-Transportation Secretary William Coleman will practice law in the capital. Ending a 25-year career in the Foreign Service, Kremlinologist Helmut Sonnenfeldt will teach at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies...
...second base in the local softball field.) And even now, many townspeople are perversely proud of the fact that the hurricane wrought more damage in our town than any other on Fire Island. Yet Allen's book is far from a best-seller there--for as one hard-bitten, hard-drinking old-timer told me recently, "He just doesn't say enough about...
What buyer resistance there is has not yet appreciably bitten into sales or changed coffee-drinking habits. Even at $3 per pound, home-brewed coffee still costs only about 5? per cup. The most effective coffee-price brake may be applied by consumers in the countries where the beans are grown. Brazil is second only to the U.S. in drinking coffee and prices have more than doubled, to $1.63 per pound, in 18 months. That may seem cheap to an American-but the average annual per capita income in Brazil is only...