Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everitt leaned forward with a conspirator's expression and solemnly announced: "Gentlemen, the Army & Navy have now finally given , permission to use the word radar - provided you spell it backwards." Washington has been grinning over this story for weeks. For censorship officers, the story has a double sting: they are well aware that radar has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the war. A favorite gag pictures a mother remarking to her husband: "John, don't you think we ought to tell Junior about radar, before he picks it up in the street...
...Feedham's further astonishment, a group of calves tethered a few feet away paid no attention to the milling swarms of bees. "I realized right away," he says, "that the bees in Squamish Valley were vastly different from any I had ever seen before. Obviously they did not sting...
Last week Mr. Feedham, an official of Canada's Honey Producers Association, announced his find: a honey-producing bee that refuses to sting.* He has already raised five "stingless" queens in his own hives. Besides being rich producers, Squamish bees are prolific, healthy, excellent hive managers. Mr. Feedham was pretty sure that he had something...
...years ago by a Belgian immigrant. Now there are some 50 colonies of about 60,000 bees each. To protect the strain, the British Columbia provincial government has barred the importation of other bees into Squamish Valley. Entomologists fear that because the Squamish is a hybrid, its reluctance to sting may not last. But Feedham believes that by long breeding it has now become a distinct new strain. He looks forward hopefully to a honey-producing bee so gentle in nature that anyone could raise a colony on the back porch...
Stingers. In Lewiston, Idaho,Apiarist W. H. Bristol fed his young bees a concoction of sulfathiazole and syrup, fondly hoped their sting might now be antiseptic...