Word: stung
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...time, Formosa had been bedeviled by Japanese pirates. Formosans still maintain that the Chinese residents of Kaohsiung beat off one Japanese attack in the 16th Century by setting afloat a host of bamboo tubes filled with live wasps. The curious pirates opened the tubes, were so badly stung that the Chinese captured the whole invading force...
Special Delivery. In West Orange, N.J., Postman Daniel Fineran, stung by a wasp while delivering the morning mail, asked a housewife for first aid, was bitten...
...Anisetta and Author Menen's fans have to go through a lot more before Aquila sees the light. After the professor comes a French existentialist count, after him a comic American from Ohio, and then a comic psychiatrist. Finally, to Uncle Giorgio's great relief, Aquila is stung into fighting a duel with another comic American-a Southerner, suh, that only a British writer could dream up-and the pair leap into each other's arms. The book ends two years later with Aquila hugging his wife and benignly watching baby shred up his books. The couple...
...admission, gregarious, blustering Defense Secretary Louis Johnson is a man with an elephant-thick hide. But the mounting charges that his heavy-footed economy was wrecking U.S. defenses stung him last week into a trumpeting roar of defiance: "The defenses of the United States as of today are, in the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, myself, and the President, sufficient unto the needs of the hour...
...epidemic, when his employers were bedridden, he ran the bakery virtually single-handed for three weeks. The resulting absence from high school caused him to be dropped as captain and anchor man on the sophomore debating team on the eve of the big contest with the freshmen. Stung by this example of adult unreasonableness and injustice, Arthur quit school...