Word: stung
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...Brandeis pitchers combined to hit four Harvard batters. Scheper got stung twice, thrusting him up toward the team leadership in that department...
...compiled a lifetime record of 50-34 with an earned-run average of 3.75. Frankie Frisch, who was the Cardinals' second baseman and manager in 1934, once said that Daffy threw the "damndest, heaviest sinker you ever saw. When a batter hit one of those pitches, his hands stung as painfully in July as if he'd swung an icicle in December...
...Stung by the erosion of its authority, Solidarity's National Commission condemned the local walkouts and called instead for a one-hour general strike this week as a warning to the government to take action on the Saturday holiday issue...
...right words to record it. She notices "a big green couch so weighty and shapeless that it looked as if it had been hoisted out of 40 feet of water." She registers the sounds of dawn: "There were cries of birds, sharp and rudimentary, that stung like sparks or hail." And the look of dusk: "The sky glowed like a candled...
...Berliawskys were one of 30 Jewish families in a provincial town whose anti-Semitism stung in a thousand ways. Nevelson remembers her father taking to his bed for weeks at a time when things got too much for him. Her mother was "misplaced in every conceivable way"-intelligent, pretty, neurasthenic, miserable in her marriage but devoted to her offspring. By the prevailing standards of Maine she had a ripe sense of style; she rouged her cheeks and dressed as though she were in New York City, thus laying the foundation of her daughter's passion for maquillage as armor...