Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner had the World Series cheering faded than the Baltimore Orioles' Frank Robinson, 31, set off to make some noises of his own. In Manhattan with his wife Barbara to pick up the Corvette Sting Ray that Sport magazine gave him for being the Series' standout, Frank began exercising his vocal cords for the winter's after-dinner speaking circuit, which will keep him busy describing how he won batting's Triple Crown and then went on to wreck the Los Angeles Dodgers with two more homers in the Series. Frank, who stands to collect about...
...Bing Sting. The ease with which Bing pulls off this kind of frosty switch-about has left some people with a case of the shivers. One detractor described him as having "the look of a man constantly inhaling bad odors which only he can detect." When a tenor called in sick one day, Bing smelled the odor of laziness. Immediately he dispatched an ambulance and two doctors to the tenor's door. "He sang that night," recalls Bing with a wry smile, "and very well too." Some who have felt the Bing sting claim that he has a lofty...
...from Helen Suzman, the pert, doughty Johannesburg housewife who is the Progressive Party's only member in Parliament. Apartheid is still attacked in the English-language press, which has somehow managed to maintain a tradition of obstinate opposition to the racist pattern, but the attacks are losing their sting. Their readers, impressed by Verwoerd's successful pacification of the country since the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, no longer want to read about the injustices of his methods...
...just stayed that way." They went paddle-boating, with a Secret Service agent paddling in their wake. They had picnics along the Potomac, flew up to New York to see the World's Fair and a Broadway show. They zipped around Washington in Luci's green Sting Ray convertible for a while, but this nettled Pat's pride; he borrowed his father's 1963 Plymouth until he bought his own car. Yet it was several weeks before Washington gossips realized that Students Jack Olsen and Paul Betz, Luci's previous best beaux, had a successor...
What has Bacall learned to value in her lifetime? "Character and a sense of humor are the two things that will carry you through." Her own wryly self-deflating humor ("It takes the sting out of things that hurt") neatly defines the dividing line between generations. The young laugh at the way things seem; the middle-aged laugh at the way things are. What are her pleasures apart from husband, children, work and friends? "I'm an insane furniture and bibelot buyer. I love the ocean-it's one of the last free places on earth." Betty Bacall...