Word: stung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last summer several children in a Harvard daycare center entered hospitals after being stung by German yellow pickets. The center called on Gary D. Alpert Post control officer of the EHS to help present the children from being stung in the future. Alpert found that the vicious insects are attracted to substances continuing protein he also realized that the children ate their lunches out doors and that many brought tuna fish sandwiches, rich in protein. He solved the problem by destroying local insect colonies and having the children cat meals indoors...
...Stung by passage of a congressional nuclear-freeze resolution, President Reagan took pains to describe the possible softening of the Soviet position as "encouraging." Said he: "We're going to give this serious consideration, as we do any proposal that they make." But Reagan added that a fuller analysis of the ambiguity-ridden Soviet plan would have to await the return to Geneva of U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze...
Harvard rebounded in the bottom half of the inning. Bauer drew a lead off walk, and that was all for O'Neill, but Farrell stung new pitcher Rick Callahan with a line drive that cleared the left field fence by 20 feet...
...Jewish settlers in the West Bank, had poisoned the schoolgirls, hoping to intimidate the Palestinians and eventually drive them out of the West Bank. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared that it was all part of a "planned and systematic crime against our people." Israeli officials, stung by such accusations, charged that the Palestinians were exaggerating the seriousness of the illness for political effect. Later the Israelis claimed that a few of the girls had admitted they faked their symptoms. The World Health Organization, the International Red Cross and the U.S. accepted an Israeli invitation to send...
Officials in Israel were stung by Barrow's accusations and the manner in which they were released. Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government issued a detailed rebuttal of Barrow's charges. It claimed that all the incidents took place within areas controlled by Israeli forces, not by the Marines, and attributed the strains partly to the fact that U.S. officers, unlike their French, Italian and British colleagues, are instructed not to confer with their Israeli colleagues. Privately, the Israelis blamed Weinberger, whom they regard as their nemesis in the Reagan Administration...