Word: chews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to tighten our organization," Bales said last week. "Each wing of the department must define what it needs and not bite off more than it can chew. That way we might be able to get more money from the Dean to hire more full-time faculty...
...that time demanded that Finland move its southern border to the north, beyond artillery range of the city. The Finns refused, and Stalin decided to use force. "The Finns turned out to be good warriors," says Khrushchev. "We soon realized that we had bitten off more than we could chew. The Finns would climb up into the fir trees and shoot our men at pointblank range. Covered by branches, with white cloaks over their uniforms, the Finns were invisible...
...snowmobilers have unwittingly flattened entire plantations of snow-covered seedlings. In parts of California's Sequoia National Forest, trail bikes were banned after they started erosion that was ruining hills and the breeding grounds of golden trout. With their six chubby wheels churning, ATVs ravage blueberry crops, chew up stream bottoms and rip the thin top layer of vegetation off swamps...
...said the peace forces in the Senate would continuefighting and that the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment was defeated because "it bit off more" than most Senators were willing to chew...
Lead is lethal. Once used as a paint base, for example, it poisons hungry slum children who like to chew bits of old paint from their flaking tenement walls. Last year two such children died and an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 were affected in New York City alone. But lead poisoning is hardly confined to slums. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, a team of Canadian researchers has now analyzed an insidious source of the ailment: glazed earthenware pottery...