Word: stings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy victory, which lifted the harriers' season record to 5-1, took some of the sting out of last week's drubbing at the hands of Penn. But the big news is still injuries, and McCurdy doesn't think that the situation will be much better in the near future...
...reduce the sting of those slaps, Nixon accordingly decided to turn Hirohito's routine refueling stop in Alaska into a chiefs-of-state ceremony complete with booming cannon, Marine Corps trumpeters and satellite coverage of the event for Japan's five TV networks. But even as the President prepared to reaffirm Japanese-American friendship, the U.S. administered yet another slap to Japan...
...Americans' hypochondria, overcrowded waiting rooms, and the inadequacies of health insurance ("At today's prices, the only one who can afford to be sick is Howard Hughes"). The program's interlocutor, Gene Kelly, did not dance, and his material did not sing. Most of the sting in the first two weeks came from sassy Teresa Graves (formerly of Laugh-In) and the blue-collar couple, Warren Berlinger and Pat Finley. The elderly Burt Mustin and Queenie Smith were wry and especially welcome, considering that old people have heretofore been virtually anathema to television...
...vivaciously comic sense for awkward syntax and incongruous internal rhyme. Boudin writes for the ear at least as well as she writes for the eye. And her sense of nonsense saves the radical political themes of the poem from didacticism. An attempt at high seriousness would blunt the sting of the poem's political barbs, but irreverence sharpens them with a fitting context. A poet who can build an atmosphere of emotion in three short lines of a stanza, and then juxtapose two words in a way that completes the emotional setting while slyly turning against it, is a poet...
...officials, entered the gym. After a moment of collective disbelief, the crowd broke into an applause which quickly became a standing ovation. As if following some ancient ritual of court. Ali, whose style of movement outside the ring is that same electric grace of the floating butterfly with the sting of a bee, only slower, so that it may be observed easily by the naked eve, moved with the lecture officials and a small police escort to the right side of the stage; while his wife, dressed in the long, dark gown of the Muslim woman and an incaradine scarf...