Word: stinging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chairman John Jackson McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee also felt the sting of the President's fretfulness last week. In February, during executive hearings before the Committee, Brigadier General Charles Evans Kilbourne, then Chief of War Plans Division, advanced a plan for seven air defense centres, observing that the one near Canada could be "camouflaged" as an "intermediate station for transcontinental flights." Brigadier General Frank Maxwell Andrews, Chief of General Headquarters Air Force, had declared that in case of war, certain British islands off the U. S. might have to be seized. By a clerical blunder, these...
Instantly Chinese League Delegate Victor Hoo buzzed in to sting the Secretary General. "What does he mean by saying Japan now has no 'obligations'?" asked Dr. Hoo. "It is not for M. Avenol to interpret the Covenant of the League of Nations. In a wide sense he has ventured to contradict Article i, Paragraph 3!" This article provides that a League member may withdraw after two years' notice only if "all its international obligations and all its obligations under this Covenant shall have been fulfilled at the time of its withdrawal...
...unhappy M. Avenol winced at this shrewd Chinese sting, zzzz came the Japanese League hornet, Consul General Matsayuki Yokoyama, to sting him on the other flank because he had said that Japan no longer has any League "rights." Agreeing that she has no "obligations" Mr. Yokoyama loudly demanded for Japan well-nigh every privilege she has ever enjoyed at Geneva, except actual membership in the Assembly and Council...
Amarendra was standing in the Calcutta railway station. "A short, black man with an oval face brushed against him," his aged aunt recounted last week from the witness stand in the Calcutta court. Amarendra felt a hypodermic needle pierce his arm. Before the sting had died away, Benoyendra dashed up and massaged the arm. Amarendra quickly developed a high fever, his arm pits and groins swelled, his face puffed, his tongue blackened, and he died, Calcutta's first victim of bubonic plague in five years...
...Pacific Street, the old "Barbary Coast," but police, in pig-snouted gas masks, rounded up the rioters and drove them South of the Slot. Commuters to Oakland bound for the Ferry House and crossing the Embarcadero on the viaduct from Market Street saw the battle from above, felt the sting of tear gas, the impact of missiles...