Word: stings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Smith had relied on the promises of his three black colleagues in Rhodesia's interim government that they could persuade large numbers of guerrillas to defect, thereby taking the sting out of the debilitating bush war. Instead, guerrilla attacks have increased in strength and boldness. Today, Rhodesia's main highways, and not just back-country roads, are perilous for convoys. A few months ago, isolated farms, missions and villages were the main targets for guerrillas belonging to the Patriotic Front. Salisbury's outskirts are checkered with new shanty towns, as blacks flee tribal lands for the safety of the city...
...Couillard, 65, as he climbed a ladder 50 ft. to reach the gathering insects. Couillard, who likes bees as much as any other industrious Vermonter, took the swarm home to his hives, where he expects them to produce about $150 worth of honey this year-enough to take the sting...
...Democratic ticket. George McGovern was impressed by his newfound fund raiser's seriousness: "Warren not only cares about issues, but his judgment is very perceptive." Mostly to be available for McGovern, Beatty rejected a number of major films: The Godfather, The Way We Were, The Great Gatsby and The Sting. Once the campaign was over, Beatty got to work producing and starring in Shampoo, a trenchant social comedy about a randy Beverly Hills hairdresser. Its sexual frankness was almost as hotly debated as the violence in Bonnie and Clyde, but it was enormously successful...
...take some of the sting out of the firings, Gulf has hired a Manhattan firm, Thine., which specializes in helping axed employees find jobs. Still, morale among many of the remaining 59,000 employees is scraping bottom, and quite a few are nervously looking for other jobs...
Idle's dialogue and Neil Innes' song parodies are full of idle wordplay and bereft of sting. Much of the time Idle does not even seem particularly interested in satirizing the Beatles or their fans; he launches instead into banal gibes aimed at documentary film makers. As satirical targets go, documentary film makers are only slightly more hilarious than, say, stamp collectors or locksmiths...