Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moon on four successive nights guided aircraft of General Douglas MacArthur's command over the jungle-clothed mountains of New Guinea to Rabaul. On one raid a Jap cruiser was hit. On another a warship was driven aground. Two other warships and numerous cargo vessels also felt the sting of night raiders striking at the best deep-water harbor in the New Guinea-New Britain area...
...Claude Wickard gets his 18,000,000 Victory gardens, food rationing will have much less sting this summer. The Agriculture Department estimates that every city garden will produce at least $10 worth of vegetables, every farm garden at least $50. At these figures, Victory gardens should yield a $420,000,000 crop...
Care of Wounds. "Wash or douche the wound with clean salt water; this may sting when applied to a raw area but it is good local treatment. Do not attempt vigorous cleaning of fuel oil from a wound; the oil is unlikely to do harm. . . . Sick men are apt to become restless and lightheaded. . . . Keep a lookout that they do not go over the side, because sick men sometimes imagine they are back at home . . . and will, for example, want to go and get themselves a drink of water...
...power in the whole area. Reconnaissance uncovered the fact that the much-bombed Munda field was stronger than originally thought and consisted of several runways, not just one. The Japs had kept coconut treetops suspended on camouflage nets while grading runways underneath. This field nested a new sting. On one occasion 25 Zeros reared up, spread out like the head of a cobra and struck...
...time for contemplation, and he had several subjects worth reviewing. There was, for one, the consideration that as a forthright critic of Churchill's war prosecution he has for two years served as whipping boy for the Prime Minister's parliamentary tempers, receiving rebukes distinguished for their sting, even in the House of Commons. He could also reflect that it is nearly three years since he held Government office, and that the British people are looking for new leaders. He could reflect that, like the great Cardinal Wolsey in 1530, he arrived at the Abbey stripped of political...