Word: stinging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...superbly conditioned athlete. Six months ago Ali could not escape Spinks and had folded his hands over his face, leaned on the ropes and allowed Spinks to bash away. Now Ali backpedaled on resilient legs and, more important, he used his hands. The famous Ali jab lacked the sting of old, but it held Spinks at bay. Each time the boxers closed on one another, Ali threw short, tightly paced combinations into the younger man's face. Once, Spinks had swarmed over Ali with furious flurries; this night, Ali beat him to the punch. By the fifth round (which...
BOSTON. For years racial antagonism and resistance to busing forced educational progress into a back seat. There has been notable white flight from Boston. But 25 new magnet schools have taken some of the sting out of forced integration by drawing a multiracial student body, which attends voluntarily and comes from all over the city to get high-grade training...
...Tiger at the Gates, The Long and the Short and the Tall), later in American movies, where he portrayed a wide-ranging gallery of rogues. Among them: a sinister assassin in From Russia with Love, Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons, a glowering Irish gangster in The Sting and, in his most popular role, the shark hunter Quint in Jaws...