Word: stingingly
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...team was a stew of ambivalent emotions following yesterday’s game against Penn State. In its consciousness was lingering euphoria—the result of a 1-0 halftime lead over the nation’s sixth-ranked team—soon to be countered by the sting of blowing that lead one hour later...
...Delhi - home to the new Ravi Shankar Center - and San Diego, also gets her musical inspiration from both East and West. Her repertoire is rooted in India's Hindu tradition, but colored by an upbringing in London, New Delhi and California spent listening to artists such as Sting and Tori Amos. "People tend to find a big difference between me and other Indian musicians," she says. "I have fun on stage. I like to groove...
...from winning; in Tamezguida Forest, Algiers. Upon being made leader of the antigovernment gia in 2001, Tourab was quoted as saying, "We will continue to destroy their harvests, take their goods, rape their women, decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts." He died in a military sting operation. DIED. GERHARD WESSEL, 88, former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation and head of the West German intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, between 1968 and 1978; in Pullach, Germany. Wessel was credited with founding Germany's military counter-espionage agency...
...best essayists, is a snob of the intellectual variety, which means he's a reverse snob. In other words, he disdains the trendy: "Sometimes all it takes for me to drop an enthusiasm is the knowledge that someone I think commonplace has picked it up." Candor always takes the sting out of snobbery...
...paradise for mixed-race children of the British empire. What Kitty remembers most about the early days is the hope. The settlers' idea was to create nothing less than a mini-state for Anglo-Indians. Their leader: Ernest McCluskie, a Scot-Indian who had felt personally the sting of discrimination from both the British and from Indians who resented that their mixed-race countrymen were eligible for better jobs. As a wealthy trader, McCluskie was in a position to do something about it. So in 1932, he bought 4,000 hectares of jungle in the hills of eastern India, part...