Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. He even outlawed Rhodesia's bright new independence postal stamp as British postage. If Smith was scared, he wasn't showing it: with rich, like-minded South Africa backing him up, he was counting on shifting Rhodesia's trade to the south, thus easing the sting of the British embargo...
...more fundamental difference between the two men is that John Lindsay is comparatively a self-made man. He was not raised in a family that was grooming a son to be President, nor was he raised in multimillion-dollar opulence by a father filled with angry ambition and the sting of Boston's social rebuffs...
...have sought to exorcise death with magic. Or with reason. "When I am, death is not," said Epicurus. "When death is, I am not. Therefore we can never have anything to do with death." The vanquishing of death was Christianity's great enterprise. "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?" cried the apostle Paul...
...MOMENT OF TRUTH. Blood, sand and social protest mix liberally in Director Francesco Rosi's angry drama about the rise and fall of a great bullfighter-played with impressive sting by Spanish Matador Miguel Mateo...
...NATO. "In 1969 at the latest," De Gaulle intoned, "will cease for us the subordination termed 'integration' which is provided for by NATO and which puts our fate in the hands of foreigners." It was a nice-ringing nationalistic sentence, but it didn't have much sting. De Gaulle's dislike of the French army's participation in NATO's integrated command structure is well known. But also, as everybody knows, France would stand to lose far more than NATO by pulling out. NATO chiefly relies on France for its supply routes and depots...