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Word: stinging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will pair with Ekpebu at wing, and John Mudd will be the other inside. The halfback line of Marsh McCall, Bill Rapp, and Charlie Steele should give Jerbasi and his partners at least an even battle, and Lanny Keyes and Tim Morgan at fullback will take some of the sting from the Penn attack. Still harboring the memory of his 1957 varsity baptism, when Penn tallied four times in one period against him, goalie Tom Bagnoli will be hard to score on this morning...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Football, Soccer Squads to Face Penn Today | 10/31/1959 | See Source »

Waiting for the President's plane at Palm Springs were red-faced official greeters: as Ike came down the ramp, windblown sand-not brassy sun-tingled his face, forcing him to bend almost double to avoid the sting. Spirits lifted as the President received a brass putter, welcoming gift from the city fathers of the "Winter Golf Capital of the World" (pop. 15,000). Grinning, Ike brandished the putter, climbed aboard a helicopter to fly 14 air miles to the hastily spruced-up Allen home. The housekeeper, Mrs. Emmet Reed, had opened the three-bedroom stucco bungalow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Week with the Boys | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...hydroplanes. As much airplane as boat, they are bellowing giants powered by World War II fighter-plane engines, ride on two hand-size patches of hull and the submerged half of a whirling propeller, skip along the water like a flat stone thrown from shore, tossing spray with the sting of buckshot. No one knows how fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Water Monsters | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Buried in our huge sarcophagus We traveled on in desolate space, Released from the sting of implacable stars And through us all passed Nirvana's wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in Space | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Nikita Khrushchev proclaimed his wish to continue supporting Nasser, but at his press conference on Berlin threw in a few side remarks about the dictator of the Nile that were meant to wound and were bound to sting. "President Nasser," said Khrushchev, "is a rather young man and rather hotheaded, and he took upon himself more than his stature permitted. He shouldn't do it. He might strain himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MIDDLE EAST: Double Trouble | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

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