Word: stinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charged fifty cents per hour for the first, day did not distinguish between students who were ten minutes late, and those who barely slipped in under the hour deadline. Offering a more finely graduated scale, Lamont's new plan will be fairer to the casual offender without taking the sting out of fines. The library, by charging twenty-five cents each tardy half hour, will provide the conscientious student with an opportunity to save and will no longer penalize him so much as his sleepier companions...
...trail to democracy be unable to govern itself? Why should a nation whose name has ranked for centuries as a synonym of enlightenment and intelligence be unable to make up its mind? No one ponders these questions more earnestly than the French themselves. As France sulked proudly at the sting of the U.S. Secretary of State's rebuke and vacillated helplessly over the choice of a President who would exercise little or no power, several thoughtful Frenchmen attempted to answer the question: What is wrong with France...
Betweentimes he must face two other judges: a mother as implacable as Madame Defarge who exchanges not a word with him, feeling that his comedown has smirched his father's name (a World War I naval hero), and a sister whose eyes still sting with grief at the death of her only son on Marius' lost ship. How strong the case against Marius really is becomes clear when, in a drunk and fitful sleep, he blurts out that he murdered his nephew for siding with the first mate just before his ship went to the bottom...
...Microbiologist Selman Waksman announced that German scientists have taken the sting from his drug, actinomycin, turned it into a potential weapon against: 1. Polio...
...gave a big lift to the Farnborough show, the world's No. 1 aviation exhibition. The show itself was as spectacular as ever, with radical-shaped aircraft cavorting all over the place. Best eye-catchers: two white Avro Vulcans, delta-winged bombers that look like great albino sting rays sliding through the sky (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The Gloster Javelin day & night fighter was another impressive delta wing...