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...Stung. In Los Angeles, Louis Gueret, arrested for burglary, told police that he had been thinking of robbing a nearby auto agency one evening, and "when a mosquito woke me up about 3 o'clock in the morning, I decided to get the job done...
...first death came the first day. A young soldier, doing his stint in the water to "lessen the rigors of overcrowding," was stung by a sea creature and died in agony. That night, the first man went insane. The next day, 20 men built a raft of flotsam to tow behind the boat. All 20 climbed aboard. The raft sank slowly until they were half under water. In three days' time, all were dead...
...Stung by Wyatt's charge, President Stearns insisted that "every teacher now on the faculty had been cleared completely" of any suspicion of subversive leanings...
...Stung by Wyatt's charge, President Stearns insisted that "every teacher now on the faculty had been cleared completely" of any suspicion of subversive leanings...
...Watteau of the Heart. The three drift gently down the garden path of self-deception in a bee-hum of amorous unrest then all at once Mahaut is stung to consciousness. With the realization that she loves François, she begs him to stay away. When he continues his visits anyway she confesses to her husband and begs him to save her. To her amazement, the count is not so much disturbed by her news as by the fact that she has shared it with François' mother. "It is absurd," he says We must find means...