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...Stinger. In Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Perry Hand, 31, admitted that she had put lye in her husband's whisky, explained that she wanted to "make him quit drinking...
...freezer, and performing delicate surgery to remove their venom sacs while they are in a half-frozen stupor. The venom from the sacs is pooled, then injected in small but gradually increasing doses into sensitive subjects. In the New York City area, the doctors found, the most vicious stinger by far is the yellow jacket (Vespula maculifrons, represented elsewhere in the U.S. by closely related species). As with most Hymenoptera, the female of the species is the deadlier-the male has no sting...
...question period that followed his speech. Mendès-France answered the reporters' queries expertly. The final question was a stinger-"Do you think Mr. Dulles would be happier if you were ousted as Premier?"-and Mendès read it with a faint smile. "My suggestion to the author of this very interesting question," he said, "is: the best way to know the answer is to ask Mr. Dulles...
...Daily News's Columnist Sydney J. Harris heaped eight paragraphs of praise on the play itself, on G.B.S., on Candida as his favorite Shaw heroine, on most of the players, and added kind words for the staging and the set. His review ended with a one-sentence stinger: "The title role is taken by Miss Olivia de Havilland, a motion picture actress." Tribune Critic Claudia Cassidy found Olivia "an interruption, nothing more." The verdict of the actress' 27-month-old son, Benjamin, made it unanimous: "The curtain goes up and my mommy comes out and talks and talks...
...Senate did not stop there. Attached to its endorsement of Harry Truman's foreign policy was a stinging vote of no-confidence in Harry Truman's conduct of that policy. A peculiar coalition applied the stinger. It included resurgent isolationists like Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry and Ohio's John Bricker, who wanted to send no U.S. troops to Europe; men like Ohio's Robert Taft, who were resigned to sending the four divisions, but wanted to draw the line there; and other Senators, Republicans and Southern Democrats, who disputed the truculent challenge Harry Truman...