Word: stings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said he was frightened of dogs, I said: 'You're quite right. They often bite people.' To the woman who said she was frightened of wasps, I said: 'Who isn't? They sting people...
Imperialism without a Sting. Braniff planned his first foreign venture with care. Too many U.S. businessmen, he thought, have gone into foreign companies, exploited them to the last penny of profit, and pulled out. His own plan: to organize a Mexican company, operated by Mexicans, and paying more than lip service to the Mexican economy. For himself he asked for a fair return on his investment, a traffic hookup between his two airlines. This brand of Yankee business easily won Mexican favor, plus route privileges to Tampico, Merida, Vera Cruz...
...political accomplishments were: 1) he had shifted the spotlight of attention to the unfinished Pacific War-insurance against Tom Dewey's argument that the next President would serve mostly in peacetime; 2 ) he had publicly extended the hand of friendship to Douglas MacArthur, drawing the sting out of the charge that MacArthur had been badly treated by the White House...
...sting in her tail...
...Hornets Sting. Before noon the planes had returned to their carriers. The task forces raced to get out of Jap range. On guard above them were their own combat planes. But the hornet's nest stirred furiously. Aboard one of the U.S. carriers was A.P.'s Eugene Burns. He reported...