Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capturing the fat bags of votes in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Explains a top New York Democrat: "The Catholic problem is real for Carter. A lot of union people are still holding back. The business with the bishops?he has to find a way to take the sting out of that. People are not against him, but they're not yet hot for him either." New England breaks down fairly neatly: Ford is ahead in the top tier of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine; the more populous bottom rung of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island seems strong...
...Ambassador William Scranton added another reason: "He is an excellent campaigner of the type we need. The President is not the attacker type, but Bob can do that kind of campaigning." He also can be abrasive and slashing to opponents, though his sense of humor alleviates some of the sting. Cracks Minnesota Republican Chairman Chuck Slocum: "We've got righteous Jimmy, dull Walter and stuffy Jerry. Bob Dole will add some zip to the campaign and prevent it from being dull...
...greeted members of the Washington police department and the FBI who had pulled off two spectacular fake fencing operations. In both cases they set up storefronts and posed as hoods to buy stolen goods and then arrest the thieves (see THE LAW). The first operation was known as "the Sting" and the second as G.Y.A., for "Got Ya Again." Tuesday evening Ford flew to the All-Star baseball game in Philadelphia, keenly aware that ABC's televised broadcast of the game was expected to outdraw NBC'S and CBS's convention coverage. (Indeed, ABC dominated the evening...
...South American fire ant has advanced from its initial beachhead?Mobile, Ala., in 1918?and now infests some 150 million acres in nine Southern states, injuring and sometimes killing livestock with its fiery sting and driving farm workers from the fields. Some experts believe that it will continue to press forward, adapting to cooler temperatures and inexorably moving toward both the North and the West. In forest areas, the gypsy moth, the tussock moth, the spruce budworm and the southern pine beetle are wreaking devastation on huge areas of woodland, defoliating and killing millions of valuable trees and destroying...
Movies like this are the price audiences have to pay for liking The Sting. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become...