Word: stings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have only one thing to do and they do it only once, mating in mid-air and then dying a horrible death. The female workers sometimes feed the young 1.300 times a day. When they dislike or distrust their leader, they cluster closely around her and crush or sting her to death. It is a process long known as "balling the queen...
...bind themselves together for eternity by kissing in a gondola under the Bridge of Sighs. This agreeable silliness works because the script by Allan Burns is sharp and funny, the two young actors are fresh and effective, Olivier is a howl, and Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) has a fine comic touch...
...Israel to contribute troops," complained a senior aide to the Premier. Others grimly recalled 1967, when Secretary-General U Thant at Egypt's request withdrew U.N. forces from the Sinai, only to see hostilities break out almost immediately thereafter. At week's end, much of the sting was removed from the dispute when the State Department suggested the possibility of new four-cornered negotiations between Israel, Egypt...
...unexpected sting...
State senators elude the Texas Rangers and sting a bill...