Word: stung
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Once Stung. Only once during the week did Candidate Nixon get into the give and take of partisan politics. Then, stung by Democratic Presidential Candidate Stuart Symington's criticism of Administration missile and space policies, Nixon replied: "While he was Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There...
...aggressiveness, Macmillan early in the week fired off a taunt that overnight came to dominate the political infighting. Reeling off the list of Gaitskell's promises (retirement at half pay for all, more schools, hospitals, housing), Macmillan asked: "How can you pay for all you promise?" Stung to anger, Hugh Gaitskell, onetime professional economist, retorted with yet another piece of pie-in-the-sky: "There will be no increase in the standard rate of income tax under a Labor government so long as normal peacetime conditions continue." And from London, Labor Party headquarters chipped in: "We are going...
Last week, as Rome basked in bright autumn sunshine, the plight of Italy's pensioners was dramatized in a way that stung the conscience of the nation. Emerging from his office onto the bustling Via Nazionale, mustachioed Leopoldo de Virgilio, 40, head of the Ministry of Defense personnel section, headed home for his midday siesta. As he reached the corner of Via Napoli, a heavy-set man confronted him and asked: "May I have two minutes of your time?" Recognizing Laborer Galvino Lepori, 53, De Virgilio replied in annoyance: "I have nothing to say that...
Only Saturday night he angrily had threatened to fly home to Russia when stung by what he considered provocative questions...
...Blood. In Tackson, Miss., after his home was invaded by a swarm of bees and his family severely stung by bees while on a picnic, Alon Bee mused: "We'd change our name if we thought it would give us any relief...