Word: stung
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...that? Was it the Government floor under farm products that was keeping food prices so high? Stung by all the criticism, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson last week called in the press for a patient point-by-point review of the whole price-support program...
...remark that stung Molotov most was Marshall's indirect reference to the fact that Russia (at Potsdam) had agreed to German economic unification, but was now trying to up the price. Said Marshall: "It looks very much to us as though the Soviet Union is trying to sell the same horse twice." Replied Molotov: "We did not approach this problem of reparations from a point of view of merchants, but we do not want other merchants selling our horse at a low price without our consent." (The strong equine note in the discussion reminded observers of an old Russian...
...gaily decorated cakes, on which they clustered, diligently searching for honey. As Mayor Teunis de Hart of neighboring Henneman in the gold country was presented to the Queen, she gasped to see four of the bees crawling placidly on his head. The Queen asked anxiously if he had been stung. He hadn't. But as they sat down, King George suggested gently that the Mayor leave off his hat, lest the bees be unnecessarily disturbed...
...deep in invective over another sort of execution-the Government's "guillotine" to speed two of its key measures (nationalization of inland transport, and town-&-country planning). Churchill stormed that the Government motion to cut off committee discussion was "strangulation of parliamentary debate . . . legislation by Government decree." Stung by ironic cheers from the Labor side, he lashed at the "idea of the government of the people, by the officials, for the party bosses," cried that "the liberties and the free life of Britain are in great danger" from Socialism...
...intelligence from Cuba stung one U.S. agency into prompt action. The U.S. Bureau of Narcotics notified the Cuban Government that while Luciano was on the loose no more narcotics for medical use would be sent to Cuba; Lucky might get them and peddle them. Cuba's new Interior Minister Alfredo Pequeno got the point. He called in burly Benito Herrera, chief of the secret police, and told him to go get Lucky. At week's end Lucky Luciano, no war hero at all, was locked up and had an ultimatum: go back to Italy...