Word: stinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Extraordinary Privilege. While the House sweated, the Senate, which would probably have to take final responsibility for extracting Rankin's stinger, was in almost as waspish a mood last week. After listening to A.F.L.'s 75-year-old President Bill Green, as he doggedly resisted anything but outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, Ohio's Robert Taft finally exploded in exasperation: "Mr. Green, I don't want to make a speech. But it seems to me you are claiming the most extraordinary privilege any organization ever claimed in the United States...
...look at the Red tide now lapping down over his map of China. Last week he sent a 16-page radio report to Washington. Its heading was mild enough: "Strategic Implications of the Developments in China." But to the Joint Chiefs of Staff last week, the report was a stinger. Once again, Douglas MacArthur found himself in a potentially untenable position. And he was calling for help...
...nettle's little stinger is one of nature's meanest masterpieces. In a recent issue of Britain's Journal of Physiology, Physiologists N. Emmelin and W. Feldberg of Cambridge University explained just how mean a nettle...
Whistler illustrated his own double nature by his signature: a butterfly with a stinger in its tail. Dante Gabriel Rossetti took note of the artist's duality in a limerick...
...President tossed Congress one stinger. He renewed his 1945 request for legislation making the Speaker of the House, after the Vice President, next in line for the presidency. If Truman should die in office, that would make Speaker Joe Martin President. From the Senate, where there are as many presidential hopefuls as there are Republicans, there came not a word...