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Word: stings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sting the Hornets. Under one of the Navy's crack carrier commanders, Rear Admiral Charles A. Pownall, powerful task forces plowed through the night toward atolls 500 miles north and west of the Gilberts. At least four carriers, perhaps more, readied their winged brood. At day break torpedo and dive bombers and Hellcat escorts swarmed from the flattops. Their objectives: Kwajalein and Wotje atolls, the Marshalls' strongest points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Paradise into Hell | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...billion demand, said the hard-worked committee, our raise is enough. To help the committee along, Pennsylvania's Representative J. Buell Snyder reported that the Army & Navy are ready to cut current expenditures by a whopping $18 billion. That enormous whack took a great deal of sting out of many a patriot's desire to pay lots more taxes this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INFLATION: The Battle Is Not the Pay-off | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...overworked ships of World War II; corrosion of their condensers (in which cold sea water is pumped through tubes to condense spent steam from the engines) has been so accelerated that many have to lay up every nine months for retubing. But a device to draw the sting from salt water has been developed by a Seattle marine engineer named Arley Cheadle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cheadle's Corrosion Cure | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Various gentlemen in Company Baker who have felt the sting of H.T. Garvey's various talents are beginning to wonder where he spent his youth. First of all he picked out the handsome, robust and be mustached Wally Landis to spar with during those two weeks of boxing instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

...looking for something else to eat, having completely consumed the front walls of Mellon, Chase and adjacent dorms. For a while there Monday we thought they ate our laundry, but it finally arrove, khakis and whites all rolled up in the usual knots. Oh winter, where is thy sting...

Author: By Ensign M. J. roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 6/25/1943 | See Source »

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