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...Couillard, 65, as he climbed a ladder 50 ft. to reach the gathering insects. Couillard, who likes bees as much as any other industrious Vermonter, took the swarm home to his hives, where he expects them to produce about $150 worth of honey this year-enough to take the sting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Capitol Sting | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...take some of the sting out of the firings, Gulf has hired a Manhattan firm, Thine., which specializes in helping axed employees find jobs. Still, morale among many of the remaining 59,000 employees is scraping bottom, and quite a few are nervously looking for other jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Gulf Oil's Painful Surgery | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Idle's dialogue and Neil Innes' song parodies are full of idle wordplay and bereft of sting. Much of the time Idle does not even seem particularly interested in satirizing the Beatles or their fans; he launches instead into banal gibes aimed at documentary film makers. As satirical targets go, documentary film makers are only slightly more hilarious than, say, stamp collectors or locksmiths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Help! | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

...supposed to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"? Against Spinks it was more like "Bloat like a butterball, swing like a flea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...Greatest" is not gone. He lives, he floats-he just doesn't sting any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

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