Word: stingingly
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...well he forgot where he had put them. After the Revolution, Novikoff-Priboy returned to Russia. One day when his nephew was clearing out an old shed he found his uncle's missing papers, tucked away in a beehive. After 22 years they had not lost their sting; Novikoff-Priboy set to for the third time, at last got his report of Tsushima written...
...announced that he had no intention of "letting Perry down easily" to improve gate receipts for their later meetings. He lived up to his promise by winning the first game in four straight points. Thereafter Perry's ability to play the ball on the rising bounce drew the sting from the speedy ground strokes for which Vines likes plenty of time to get into position. A match between two expert tennists is always a tactical battle in which the man who plays well enough to impose his method on the other is the winner. After the first...
...fact that Father Coughlin has shut up takes the sting from the impetuosity of the Tokio police. That is the best news that has come in a long while. GROUNDHOG
...plaintive radicals were inclined to inquire last week "Odets, where is thy sting?", sophisticated cinemaddicts were less surprised at the speed with which Hollywood had apparently caused Playwright Odets to modify his creed, than at that with which Playwright Odets had obviously acquired Hollywood's technique. Directed in somewhat over-ostentatious style by Lewis Milestone, The General Died at Dawn remains a first rate melodrama, vividly penned, performed and photographed. Good shot: a reporter (Novelist John O'Hara) getting credentials from General Yang by promising to run his story on the front page...
...Sting No. 4. After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...