On June 8 , 1972 Kim Phuc was 9 years old and running for her life: her mouth open in anguish, her thin arms splayed out on either side of her small naked body, her burning clothes left behind as the skin on her back stung with the torture of having touched fire.
In some cases, efforts by American Special forces working with anti-Taliban commanders in Afghanistan to buy back Stinger missiles were slowed by the fact that they had to await payments to those Afghan fighters by C.I.A. field officers, because the American soldiers were not allowed to hand out cash.
But fans kept asking him to bring back the stings, and last year, Hansen mounted a Kickstarter campaign, raising nearly $90,000 for a reboot called "Hansen vs. Predator".
But fans kept asking him to bring back the stings, and last year, Hansen mounted a Kickstarter campaign, raising nearly $90,000 for a reboot called "Hansen vs. Predator".
"Yup," I said, blinking back the sting of tears as I watched my sweet girl put on her coat.
If the Knicks ultimately miss the postseason, they will look back with stinging regret on a stunning 112-104 loss to the Indiana Pacers.
Mr. Patten seems passionate and sensible, the master of British understatement but also of the British skill at fighting back with stinging words.
Remember the last time you stretched a rubber band so far that it snapped back and stung you like a bee?
Still, the decision to split the weak final novel in Suzanne Collins's young adult trilogy into two movies may come back to sting the film-makers like a swarm of angry tracker jackers.
But her mother said it was a crime to stay indoors while the sun shone, and Jane couldn't read outside with the same absorption; there was always some strikingly perfect speckled insect falling onto your page like a reminder (of what? of itself), or a root nudging into your back, or stinging ants inside your shorts.
