Word: stung
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...Once a customer has been stung into buying such a book, he will be wary the second time, if the cover is merely a lurid disguise for a poorly designed, badly printed book," Armitage declared...
Elliott Roosevelt's one-man crusade to "make Christians out of Christmas-tree dealers" by underselling them (TIME, Dec. 13) ran afoul of some belligerent apostasy in Manhattan. "Let him sell his skunk spruce," snorted one dealer. "But the buyers will be getting stung-unless they like their needles on the floor instead of on the tree...
Premier Queuille, trying to take a gingerly grasp on the nettle, got stung. He ordered troops, police, and republican security guards to seize mines threatened with damage; but, fearing civil war, he ordered them not to shoot. The government forces were outnumbered by strike mobs and in most places were beaten back with a heavy toll of injuries on both sides. Near St. Etienne, strikers tried to oust government forces from a mine already seized (see cut). At Firminy, where panicky security guards started shooting, against the government's orders, 40 strikers were wounded, two killed...
...Errand Boys." Having developed his criticism of the Both Congress into an effectively political issue, he used that issue for all it was worth. He called the Republicans in Congress "errand boys of Big Business," declared that lobbyists pulled the strings and the people got stung. He boasted: "I vetoed more bills than any President except Grover Cleveland-if I hadn't been there to protect you, you would be in a very great fix by this time...
...worst didn't have a chance to happen. The diathermic duo was in fourth place, six lengths behind such high-caliber swifties as Spy Song and Coaltown (a stablemate), when suddenly, as if stung by bees, Citation shot ahead. In one brief explosive burst he catapulted past the leaders. Said Arcaro later: "I never hit him. I never even clucked to him. All I did was look ahead and see that LeRoy Pierson, on Coaltown, was blocking the way. So I yelled 'Watch out, LeRoy!' It must have been the password...