Word: stingers
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...have a stinger and there was no way with people in front of me that I wouldn't use it," Murphy said. "At that point, it had nothing to do with my tendon...
Eric Carle's bright, elemental The Grouchy Ladybug (Crowell; $6.95) is about a mite spoiling for a fight. But every opponent has a stinger, a scent or a size that is superior. Carle has designed the book to fit the tale: as the heroine meets larger animals, the pages grow in size. None of the confrontations manage to sweeten the insect's disposition. That transformation is accomplished by powers that neither ladybug nor reader can resist: hunger and exhaustion...
...Justice Department has also asked if Park would talk to its agents in the safety of his London sanctuary. It is an offer he will probably refuse, but it reflects how desperate the investigators are for information about the sly and skillful stinger from Seoul...
...demonstrate exemplary camaraderie and a shrewd aw-shucks kind of existential humor. It does not really help much that this funny stuff is juxtaposed with sud denbursts of the most brutal violence, thus demonstrating that whatever grace notes we find in life, a rather grubby mortality always has its stinger...