Word: stingingly
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Moravec's knees, and Petrillo's sting...
...what holds for writers is just as true for musicians. The latest Soviet artist to feel the sting of Zhdanov's whip was once-favored Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. Loudly hailed as "a triumph of our great victory" at its premiere, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony was described last week by the Central Committee's Culture and Life as a "playful and fanciful trifle . . . sharp and screaming" and hopelessly lacking in "warm, ideological conviction." It was probably, conceded the young composer's critic charitably, the fault of undue influence by expatriate Russian Composer Stravinsky, "an artist without...
...plane was the DH-108, a jet-propelled, tailless aircraft shaped like a sting ray. Captain De Havilland's purpose was: 1) to study problems of control in aircraft with swept-back wings (in preparation for a transatlantic airliner which is being built by his father's company); 2) to advance Britain's supremacy in aircraftsmanship by breaking the British-held world's speed record (616 m.p.h...
Neither Honey nor Sting. It was the Jews' relentless pioneer zeal as well as the pressure of Jewish numbers that troubled and angered the Arab world. But it was numbers that caused the present crisis. Should 100,000 more Jews be permitted to migrate to Palestine immediately from the "displaced persons" camps of Europe...
...want no foreign teachers and no foreign money and no foreign habits and no smiles of condescension and no pat on the shoulder and no arrogance and no shameless women with wiggling buttocks in our holy places. We want not their honey and we want not their sting, you understand...