Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Junior Erik "Elf" Roth was out with the leaders early and survived a midrace slump to remain in good position. Close behind were John Heyburn and Howie Foye. Heyburn has never been sidelined by injury in two years of running, and a wasp sting that swelled his hand painfully did not stop him Saturday...
Vanishing Sting. Yet no paper managed to cover Texas with more vigor, enthusiasm and sensitivity. Only the Observer, Morris says, ever bothered to show any interest "in the last words of a 17-year-old rapist on death row, or in the terror of a seven-year-old Negro child in an adult ward for the mentally ill, or in what Norman Mailer said or did not say to the college students in Austin." Unabashedly liberal and outspoken, the weekly was often exasperating, sometimes wrong, never humdrum or stale...
...Deep South. Larry King began a successful career as a freelance writer and gadfly. Perhaps the greatest loss was Morris, who headed for New York in 1963, wrote North Toward Home and became the youngest editor in Harper's century-long history. Its liveliest writers gone, its sting vanished, the Observer piled up greater deficits, reduced its size and published only fortnightly editions...
...dally with." To one subject he was "a tyrant more cruel than Nero." When his wife Anne Boleyn was about to be beheaded by his executioner, she maintained: "A gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never." Even as they felt the impact of his boisterous personality, the sting of his vindictiveness, or the thrust of his appetite for pleasure and power, the contemporaries of King Henry VIII could never quite understand...
Philadelphia's Joe Frazier, 24, will never float like a butterfly or sting like a bee. He does not even practice poetastry or Islam. Though he is no Muhammad Ali, Joltin' Joe is still the second-best heavyweight in the world, and there is excitement in his artless approach to his trade. Utterly lacking in fistic science, Frazier is a slugger in the savage style of Rocky Marciano. "I punch and get punched," says Joe. "He lays it on me, and I lay it on him. That's what fightin' is all about...