Word: stung
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have suffered 16 dead and 31 wounded in the action, but the casualty toll may have been substantially higher. Said TIME Photographer Harry Mattison, who witnessed the fighting: "Dead bodies were being stacked like logs. The army decided to hit a wasp's nest and was heavily stung...
...Stung by the public attack by McDonnell Douglas, Defense Department officials insisted last week that their choice of the Lockheed C-5N, which still must be approved by President Reagan, did not violate the competitive bidding process. Secretary of the Air Force Verne Orr advised McDonnell Douglas last August that, although it had been named prime contractor for the C-17, the military had made no actual commitment to build the airplane. McDonnell Douglas can look forward to a consolation prize. The Pentagon is expected to order 44 McDonnell Douglas KC-10A military tankers, which the company sells...
...Glemp, anxious to keep the church above the political struggle and avoid inciting violence that might cause a Soviet invasion, was more cautious. But as last week's sermon showed, the primate was not afraid to issue moral condemnation when he felt the situation demanded strong words. Apparently stung by his criticism, Jaruzelski met with Glemp on Saturday to discuss what Warsaw radio called "normalization of life in Poland...
Freshman Marquita Patterson got stung by a similar record-setting bug. Patterson has wasted no time making her mark on Harvard athletics, setting a 60-yard hurdle record against UNH and tying it Saturday. The freshman phenom chopped half a second off Karen Gray's record 9.1 seconds...
...line, but the Crimson defense held fast. On the first play, linebacker James Mueller stopped Crusader running back Sanford McMurtry at the line of scrimmage. On the next play, Cox hit McMurtry for a loss of four yards on an option lateral pass from the quarterback. Clapacs stung Holy Cross quarterback Tom Heffernan for a loss of six on third down, and Jepson's fourth-down attempt for a field goal was wide to the right...