Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chose the last name, said Porter, out of the society columns of a New Orleans newspaper and the initial O. because it is "about the easiest letter written." These first stories have all the professionalism of his later work-they are sentimental, comic, marvelously contrived and carry a sting of surprise at the end. Many turn on what was to be a constant theme for O. Henry: the vindication of a man who has seemingly forfeited all claim to respect...
...Koinonia's neighbors went right on as before, following a pattern of harassment that has been growing ever since last year (TIME, Sept. 17), when the unsegregated, pacifist Christian families of the 1,100-acre farm began to feel the sting of terror and the weight of boycott by local merchants. After the first blows, 13 Negroes and nine whites left the farm, but 36 whites and two Negroes stayed. The terror mounted...
...Dave Beck affair and its subsidiary scenarios challenge not only the leadership of trade unionism but labor's rank and file to scrutinize their standards anew." The words took a special sting from the newscaster who flung them: Edward P. Morgan, 46, whose nightly 15 minutes on ABC radio (7 p.m., E.S.T.) is sponsored, as his announcer puts it. by "15 million Americans"-the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Along with an outspoken but responsible way of using the freedom given by his sponsor and network, veteran Newsman Morgan combines a pleasant delivery with writing and reporting skill unusual...
Worse than crop damage is the annoyance. Their mounds, thickly set in hay or grain fields, damage mowing and harvesting machines. They get into fodder and sting the cattle that try to eat it or the humans that handle it. In places where they are thick, farmers cannot get laborers to work in the fields. In suburbs they pock lawns with their mounds, bite children playing on the grass...
...Solenopsis saevissima), recently introduced into the U.S. from South America and already a plague to farmers in ten Southern states, is fast becoming a medical problem as well, reported Tulane University doctors. The tiny creature (from ⅛ to ¼ in. long, red with a black abdomen) has a savage sting that in mild cases causes a severe blister and swelling, sometimes accompanied by low fever and nausea; in some allergic individuals the sting, like bee venom, can cause anaphylactic shock, and there have been several deaths...