Word: stung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right words to record it. She notices "a big green couch so weighty and shapeless that it looked as if it had been hoisted out of 40 feet of water." She registers the sounds of dawn: "There were cries of birds, sharp and rudimentary, that stung like sparks or hail." And the look of dusk: "The sky glowed like a candled...
...Berliawskys were one of 30 Jewish families in a provincial town whose anti-Semitism stung in a thousand ways. Nevelson remembers her father taking to his bed for weeks at a time when things got too much for him. Her mother was "misplaced in every conceivable way"-intelligent, pretty, neurasthenic, miserable in her marriage but devoted to her offspring. By the prevailing standards of Maine she had a ripe sense of style; she rouged her cheeks and dressed as though she were in New York City, thus laying the foundation of her daughter's passion for maquillage as armor...
...country."He apparently hoped to exploit the growing uneasiness between the union and the dissidents. KOR has been on the defensive since earlier this month, when a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church charged that its leading activist, Jacek Kuron, had made "noisy and irresponsible statements" against Moscow. Stung by the church attack, KOR replied that it was "contrary to the stand of the whole history of the Catholic Church for the past 35 years...
...redecorating as on Cabinetmaking. Reagan aides traipsed in and out of the White House's working areas to size up office space. Tape measure in hand, Graber personally spent two days poring over the living quarters, including the Carters' bedroom. Carter people, who have been rather stung by all the press commentary on the "style" that the Reagans might restore to the capital; snickered gleefully that all the newcomers would bring was "Beverly Hills class." Few other First Families have plunged into redecoration right away. One of the first things the Kennedys intended to do was convert...
...wall for me." Ernest Hemingway did not go quite that far to prove his love for young Adriana Ivancich, but he did write her some 2,000 letters between 1949 and 1955, and he immortalized her as Renata in Across the River and into the Trees (1950). Years later, stung by inferences in a Hemingway biography, Ivancich, now Countess Von Rex, 50, says that she "felt it was time to tell how it really was." How it was, she says, in the as yet untranslated La Torre Bianco (The White Tower), was chaste. Their love was consummated only in fiction...