Word: stung
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...Stung by Japanese criticism of their playing ("We have nothing to learn from the Dodgers," said the manager of the Mainichi Orions), the Dodgers finally got themselves untracked, clobbered the Kanto All-Stars 8-0 and 12-1, brought their touring record to four wins, two losses and a draw. Japanese ballplayers, admitted Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, "are somewhere between the Texas League and the Southern Association, and that is quite complimentary...
...character of his state. Iowa is farming. The state's official pamphlet points out with rural pride that it has no large city (Des Moines, the largest, has a population of 185,000). Iowa produces more hogs, poultry, eggs and timothy seed than any other state, and is stung by the fact that in 1955, largely because of drought, it lost first rank as a corn producer to neighboring Illinois...
Only a flat, last-minute, wildly improbable turndown by the top man could have beaten him, but Richard Nixon was taking nothing for granted last week in his campaign for vice-presidential renomination. Chigger-bitten by Harold Stassen, stung by California Governor Goodwin Knight's bumblebee efforts against him (TIME, Aug. 27), Nixon spread political balm in San Francisco with a soothing hand. Like a busy doctor, he moved from room to room of his Mark Hopkins Hotel suite to talk to delegations-and before long, the traffic was so heavy that the only way the delegates could leave...
...second time in three weeks, U.S. Ambassador James Bryant Conant apologized to West German Foreign Minister Dr. Heinrich von Brentano for G.I. misbehavior. Stung by German charges of "helpless excuses," U.S. European Commander General Henry I. Hodes ordered a midnight curfew for West Germany's 150,000 G.I.s, promised to weed out "misfits and lawbreakers" from U.S. units. Some Army commanders are inclined to blame the increase in serious violence on the Army's much-ballyhooed new "Operation Gyroscope," whereby entire units, up to divisions, trade duty stations. Formerly, fresh groups of young draftees went into old units...
...from Durban thought that garlic might help. A Londoner suggested tying a horse under the wing. "Bees," he wrote, "don't like the smell of horses, but wrap him carefully so he won't get stung." A local housewife urged the airline to give the bees a good whiff of bruised lemontree leaves. C.A.A.'s chief pilot decided on more drastic action. Taking his place at the controls, he flew skyward to 17,000 ft., bumped, banked and looped-but when he got down again, the busy bees were still happily humming in the wing...