Word: bitten
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...French clothes and cosmetics for millions of dollars, and why do U.S. tourists go in masses to France leaving millions in U.S. currency so that it can be used to emasculate the U.S. economy? Only "paper tigers" or masochists offer the other cheek after one has already been bitten several times. Sometimes even ingrate, arrogant old men suffering from a superiority complex can be taught a lesson in the elementary and basic laws of give and take...
...Republicans against it. Though Republicans did hold funding to $1.6 billion, the chances are good that when the program emerges from conference with the Senate, which gave it $2.2 billion, it will have more money than it has ever had. It was as if Eliza had turned around and bitten the bloodhounds...
...Daniel; his aim was only to torment the father. Saved by a whim, the embittered youth also descends upon Israel. There the tensions of filial hatred and paternal remorse are unstrung against the sun-scorched background of today's Beersheba, city of patriarchs. Author Dayan's hard-bitten way with the English language raises this novel well above the sagging sentimentality of the Urises and Micheners...
...bombing pause if it would lead to reciprocal talks. And it seems clear that the North Vietnamese are listening-both to him and the current U.S. debate. There even seems to be a remote chance that this will lead to talks sooner rather than later. Hanoi's hard-bitten Defense Minister Giap suggested last week that he is convinced that whoever is elected President in 1968, Lyndon Johnson or his opponent, the war-if it is still going on-is sure to increase in intensity...
...most of his life, lean, lobo-eyed Jesse James, now 39, seemed well on the way to paralleling the career of his notorious namesake, though less successfully. A hard-bitten Harlem Negro, he spent a dozen years in Comstock, the Elmira Reformatory and Sing Sing for crimes ranging from narcotics addiction to armed robbery. Out on parole in 1961, Jesse went West and straight -even to the extent of becoming a lay minister in the All Nations Church of God in San Francisco. Last week, in the city's crime-rife Mission district, a new James gang was riding...