Word: bitten
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...with them. So did a large measure of public faith in big corporations. Each new offense seemed to make the same point: with communism vanquished, capitalism was left with no real enemies but its own worst impulses. It can be undone by its own overreaching players. It can be bitten to pieces by its own alpha dogs...
...singer Seal has those scars on his face because he was bitten by a seal. “Heretofore, I shall carry the name of that beast whose jaws have forever marked me,” he said...
Even Kavulla, though, sometimes feels he’s been bitten by the networking bug. “I feel guilty when I don’t [network] because, let’s be honest, people are paying thousands of dollars to get connections,” he says...
...have to be both good and lucky to win these competitions,” Walton said. “Last year’s team was bitten by bad luck. This year’s team...
...dish (although on hindsight perhaps they were meant to temper the spiciness, such as it is): pineapples, potatoes and cherry tomatoes. The traditional accompaniments, I believe, are tiny Thai eggplants—mini-grenades of acridity, the size of a blueberry, spurting an intensely bitter juice when bitten. But the curry itself was smooth and velvety, laden with an appropriately immoderate amount of coconut milk...