Word: stung
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...stung when, less than a month into my tenure as managing editor, a student who was furious about several aspects of the way in which the paper had covered a campus tragedy e-mailed me to say, “You are not the New York Times.” The student went on: “You are not dealing with a vast population of detached observers. You are dealing with a very small, close-knit, highly sensitive population of students.” It was a criticism that is sometimes leveled internally, too: that The Crimson is overly...
...Jazeera's coverage stirred business problems in the network's own backyard long before its executives decided to go West. For the past nine years in the Middle East, al-Jazeera has faced an unofficial boycott led by Saudi Arabia, whose government was stung by criticism on al-Jazeera of its rulers. The English channel is apt to employ the sort of guerrilla business tactics that the Arabic channel has used. Initially limited to advertising from Qatari companies, the Arabic channel gradually attracted international brands and boosted its revenues threefold by, among other things, making deals with parent companies rather...
...least I could write iambic pentameter,” Kumin says. But Stegner was profoundly unimpressed. “Say it in flowers, but for god’s sake, don’t write any more poems,” Stegner told the Radcliffe first-year. The words stung...
...your business," replied Speakes. "It is our business," said Donaldson. "If you had two grains of salt for sense," said Speakes, "you could figure it out." Though Speakes claims that he intentionally lashes back at reporters in order to keep combative questioners at bay, the reporters' criticism stung him. The next day he delivered an impassioned defense of his credibility...
...ride north on drilling equipment shipped from Latin America. The killers are no more venomous than domestic bees, but they are easily provoked and attack in great numbers. They were first reported in California by an oil-field worker who watched aghast as a swarm of the bees stung a rabbit to death. California authorities killed the invaders with an insecticide...