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...Gunga Dean"? His pieces were lively, if spiteful. They were sometimes relieved by his love of puns, which he has since learned to check. He continues with zest and doggedness but not always with fairness or pinpoint accuracy to go after Democratic wrongdoing. Bert Lance knows his sting, and so does House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Safire's coverage of Lance won him a Pulitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH: Polemics with a Satisfying Zap | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...Sting like a Butterfly...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Boxing at Harvard: An Idea Whose Time Has Come? | 1/17/1979 | See Source »

Needless to say, the Kucinich arrest took some of the sting out of the Kucinich protest. It ended up as just another Cleveland joke, and left people wondering what else could possibly go wrong...

Author: By David Beach, | Title: Cleveland: | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...women's varsity squash team used its hard serves to sting and daze all but one Dartmouth player in Saturday's home match, as the undefeated Crimson defeated the Big Green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Varsity Squash Team Dispenses With Dartmouth, 6-1 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...Wolfe's sting has been felt mostly by Washington bureaucrats. For the past seven years, the 41-year-old doctor has been buzzing around federal agencies, urging them to take action on health issues. These range from banning cancer-causing chemicals from food supplies and the workplace to removing hazardous drugs from the market and warning the public about the dangers of unnecessary surgery, excessive X rays and liquid protein diets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Valuable Gadfly | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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