Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placed torpedoes might do for the Iowa, but she is so speedy that a 21-knot submarine (even slower submerged) would be hard put to it to get into firing range or draw a bead on her. A destroyer trying it would likely get sunk. A mine could only sting the Iowa. Her heavy guns match any on land or sea, and with them she could have taken on the whole German battle fleet of Jutland. On the surface, these new ships can take care of themselves...
...days got longer, the weather warmer. Now came the black flies, horse flies, deer flies, the tiny "no-see-ums" that announce themselves only by a sting, and the mosquitoes. ("Why, over at Watson Lake, a mosquito landed on the airport and they put 85 gallons of gas into it before they realized it wasn't a bomber.") The insects made sweating, swollen hands look like grey fur. The engineers slapped and cursed till they got head nets and gloves...
...best book to date about U.S. Army life. It is a realistic, informative, good-natured sketch of what life in camp is really like, written with a certain cub-like charm. It approaches Army life with just the right touch of hard-boiled banter to take the sting out of it. If a book can build morale, this should...
...more than coincidence, on the 166th anniversary of Independence the U.S. had struck its first blow at Nazi-occupied western Europe. In truth it was a token raid of things to come, but a token with a sting. The raiders bombed three Dutch airdromes in all, at Haamstede, Valkenburg and Alkmaar, damaging grounded planes, hangars, other installations...
...inland. Defense must be in a depth, not of 30 or 40 miles, but of 200 or perhaps 400. To protect the whole area with an army is prohibitively expensive in men and materiel. Only a civilian force of guerrillas naturally spread throughout the area, can take the sting out of surprise and speed until the regulars get there. The school at Middlesex may lead, as in Britain, to an integrated Home Guard under the War Department...