Word: stingingly
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...first sting of winter hung over a dying city on the Soochow mud flats last week. Its International Settlement had been under Japanese military domination since August. Its tide of fleeing foreigners had reached flood last month with the evacuation of U. S. citizens; its foreign colony had shrunk to a scattering of bitter-enders: U. S. taipans unwilling to leave. White Russians and anti-Nazi refugees unable to leave, British nationals who had no place...
...anti-conscription mail. Accepting an amendment to up Army pay, "Dear Alben" muffed a cogent argument for compulsory service: that the alleged necessity for the increase augured ill for the Army's chances to get swarms of volunteers. No voice raised in Congress for conscription had the sting and vim which some anonymous satirist achieved last week in a mock petition-to Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Emperor Hirohito-which was circulated in New York...
...Democratic candidate for President last week disdained to answer the challenge in Wendell Willkie's G. O. P acceptance speech. President Roosevelt instead chose waspish Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to sting back Mr. Willkie. Some Ickes stingers...
What the radio audience missed were six rounds of punishing punching. For the first three rounds, Jenkins had the better of Armstrong. Then the skinny Texan - who had come out of the sticks two months ago to blast the lightweight crown off Lou Ambers' head- suddenly lost his sting. From then on, it was Armstrong's show. Putting on the famed hammering act that once won three world's titles (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight) within eleven months, he plopped Jenkins to the floor once in the fourth round, twice in the fifth, three times in the sixth. Just...
Constantly goading Baiter to put a sting into his punches is hard-boiled Neal Ivey of Philadelphia's Ivey & Ellington, which handles the Phillies account. Ivey, who signed up Baiter for Phillies, wires complaints when Baiter sounds soft. Sample of the stuff Ivey likes to hear: "How does horse racing get away with it? ... A horse comes in . . . among the also-rans in one race and in the very next he finishes so far ahead that he's through taking his shower before the place pony can even stagger home. Or vice versa. At least vice...