Word: stings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...film shows the massive, single-purposed manpower of Russia at work backing up the fighters at the front: workers threshing the grain a step ahead of the Nazis, child sentries in the wheat fields, elders evacuating villages to draw the Luftwaffe's sting, new roads and railroads inching through the Urals, factories, scientists, guerrillas, the scorched earth-all the war-going activities of a people who have found out what they are fighting...
...sting drove deep. The British had raided these ships, as they lay for ten months in the harbor of Brest, no fewer than 110 times; they had begun to think of them as almost fixed targets. And it hurt badly to think back on the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, lost to a lesser force off Malaya...
...When in danger, the ladybug lies on its back at the enemy's mercy. It cannot be blamed because nature gave it no horns or sting or a brave heart. What can be said about an armed man who lies on his back as soon as an enemy appears? Such people are called cowards. . . . Manila could have resisted the enemy like Leningrad, Sevastopol, Moscow and Tula. It could have withstood a siege like Tobruk. The hardships and miseries would have been compensated abundantly by the glory to the people and the exhaustion of the enemy's forces...
Feeling the sting of defeat for the first time in four starts, the Freshman basketball team dropped a close game to Exeter Saturday afternoon at Exeter by a score...
...Others: Yellow Dog Blues, Beale Street Blues, Hooking Cow Blues, Aunt Hagar's Children Blues (all by Handy), Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting, Pickaninny Rose...