Word: stingingly
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...present bill, the section dealing with fair employment practices in particular. Javits applauded Dirksen's decision, however, to bring his proposals before the Republican Conference of the Senate before introducing them on the floor. "I have hopes that before he proposes his amendments he will have taken the sting out of them," Javits said...
...wonder is that there are not many more such deaths, for thousands of people are stung every year, some of them severely. In recent weeks, the sting rate got up to 400 or more a day in southeast Florida. Bulldozers buried a mass of man-of-war bodies daily, but so many more came in that some of the most popular beaches had to be closed...
Most victims step on the tentacles of a dying man-of-war washed up on the beach, and they get what feels like a scorpion sting. Several tentacles drawn across the legs feel like a lashing with red-hot wires, and may throw a healthy adult into shock by suddenly dropping his blood pressure. The extreme pain may last an hour, and dull pain for a couple of hours more. The welts persist for up to three months...
...purely individual; it may be the only profession where you can do this." Such dedicated talk does not mean that the lean youth with long fair locks is an isolated, inhibited child prodigy; he is, rather, the neighborhood swinger, who now zaps around in his second vermilion Corvette Sting Ray sports car, having cracked up the first last summer...
...make a virtue out of running a poor second ("We try harder"). Third-place National Car Rental advertises somewhat ruefully that no one has to wait in line for one of its cars. And across the U.S., dozens of rental firms are offering cut-rate charges, hoping to sting giant Hertz, which does nearly a third of all car renting...