Word: stingingly
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Apparently, real Harvard athletes don’t have the time to singlehandedly foil FBI sting operations, fly out to Kansas every other day and drop copious amounts of acid. And the opening scene—in which Greiner shows up late for a game due to a romp in the hay with Sarah Michelle, only to promptly be inserted into the lineup—probably wouldn’t go over very well with Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan or real Harvard teammates...
...with Smith and opens his home to his old friend when Smith returns to the Sacramento area. For $1,000 a month, the letter said, he could be "extremely helpful" on the tribal-recognition issue. Bersinger's influence peddling was so barefaced, Amelia thought it might be an FBI sting. Her tribe ultimately declined the services. "It was improper to pay for what should be rightfully ours anyway," Amelia says...
...attacks and investigations by the Justice Department. Traficant first made headlines in 1983, when he was a county sheriff, for successfully defending himself against federal bribery charges, despite not being a lawyer. His defense against overwhelming FBI evidence was that they had caught him in the midst of a sting operation he was running unbeknownst to anyone else in the sheriff’s department. How can such a flagrantly outrageous man not be an American folk hero...
Hurd left the commentary, tucked in a footnote of the decision, at this. Starobin avoids responding directly to the sting of the decision that both crushed her hopes and mocked her mercilessly...
...both ends of Saturday’s twin-bill against Princeton, the Crimson shook off the sting of crooked, late-inning deficits and staged defiant, last-chance rallies to pull close. After the first game’s rally fell short in a controversial 4-3 defeat, the pressure was on with a 4-2 seventh-inning hole in the second game. But Harvard showed no signs of anxiety in stringing together four straight hits to cut the deficit in half and load the bases...