Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took some of the sting out of two otherwise dreary days of baseball at Yale Field, as the Crimson (20-9,9-3 Ivy) overcame nine errors, hard-luck losses from aces Andrew Duffell and Garett Vail and quality starts from four Bulldog arms to hold Yale (14-17, 6-6) at bay in the pennant chase...
...next day. Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, who is presiding over Starr's grand jury in Washington, is considering referring some of his top aides to the Office of Professional Responsibility for not letting Lewinsky talk to her lawyer right away on the day she was caught in an FBI sting at the Ritz Carlton and was pressed to cooperate in exchange for immunity. That same day, Attorney General Janet Reno announced an investigation would be launched into the Hale payoffs. Said a White House staff member, bending if not breaking the no-gloat rule: "I don't know much...
...older boy, who was almost ready to shave, brought a pellet pistol to the war, not a feckless Daisy that would merely sting but a penetrating gas-fired model, almost as wicked...
...Commandments is divided into sections that correspond to the laws on Moses' tablets ("My Mammogram" counts the virile male physique as perhaps the ultimate graven image). Its theology is deeply personal, more biographical than biblical. "My Old Idols" remembers the crisp erotic sting of a parochial school instructor wielding a pointer while drilling pupils in Greek: "Accounts of murder and sacrifice/ Only suggested the heavy price/ I longed to pay at his behest." Born on the Main Line, an upscale, old-money suburban Philadelphia neighborhood, McClatchy has an aristocratic tartness that comes through both in his stanzas...
...only other school in the U.S. News and World Report's top five not to announce financial aid reform, already eases the financial uncertainty by freezing fees for each class at the level when they are admitted--a simple change that, if enacted here, would take some of the sting out of Knowles' yearly tuition pronouncements...