Word: bitefuls
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...instructors at Fürstenfeldbruck. Banned from the air for ten years, baffled by the jet age complexities, bridling at homework and "NATO English," and afflicted by the general Ohne mich ("Count me out") psychology which infects German soldiery, the tigers of 1940 have not yet recovered their bite...
...violent denial of Negroes' right to vote that marked Reconstruction days has long since given place to more subtle methods. The white primary is no more. The poll tax, though still in force in five Southern states, has lost most of its economic bite, but is sometimes used (notably in Virginia), as a device for confusing Negroes and poor whites out of their chance to register...
...turned the trick in 1947 over Los Angeles station KTLA, and Pantomime Quiz has been on and off TV ever since. There have been few changes in format. M.C. Stokey hands out actable "stumpers" (e.g., "Hand your teeth to me, grandma, I'm putting the bite on a friend") to competing four-man teams, each made up of two name actors and two pretty actresses. The player who gets the stumper acts it out with passion and abandon while his three teammates have only two minutes to supply the words. Stokey has speeded up the game with the invention...
...will happen. We will do the same, but with more emphasis." The emphasis where peace was concerned: "Trust in God, but look out for yourselves. When you walk among dogs, don't forget to carry a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for, to bite when he feels like it." On the subject of controlling the people: "The party leadership must not be divorced from the ranks of the party and must not become divorced from the masses. If there is a divorce there will be no comrades. Hungary serves a vivid lesson...
...voice, she scored her first major success in Bellini's Norma at Verona four years ago, has since become a widely acclaimed guest singer of the standard Verdian repertory. Her voice has appealed to most critics as a cross between Tebaldi's "silky elasticity" and Callas' bite and thrust. Big-boned and fleshy-faced, she has been most often criticized for carrying too much weight to put across the dramatic illusion her roles call for. "When they pay me a million lire an evening," says she, "I shall reduce...