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The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya
Fool
People
Dog
King
Other
Ought
Seven
Small
Small Child
Tiger
Child
Owned
Awakened
Wasp
Serpent
Sleep
He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.
Sid Waddell
Speed
About
He
Predictable
Wasp
'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.
Christopher Hitchens
History
Class
Culture
Word
Group
Other
Way
Only
Fact
Term
Tied
Another
Redneck
Up
Same
Just
In Fact
Which
Apart
Social
Lower
Ethnic
Standing
Who
Strata
Wasp
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
Harry Mathews
Death
Society
Side
East
East Side
Brought
Crutches
Been
Up
Upper
Which
Wasp
I was a WASP kid going to a high school that was 99 percent Jewish and I wanted attention and I wanted to make a spectacle of myself because I couldn't stand to be ignored.
James Ellroy
Myself
School
Kid
High
High School
Percent
Attention
Make
Because
Going
Wanted
Stand
Ignored
Wasp
Spectacle
Jewish
I never panic when I get a wasp at my ear. As soon as you strike out, they'll sting you. So just stay cool.
Martin McGuinness
You
Panic
Strike
Out
Stay
Never
Soon
Sting
Get
Just
Cool
Wasp
Ear
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're at it, his father, George H. W. 'Poppy' Bush, was a former president and his grandfather was the Nazis' U.S. banker in the 1930s).
Peter York
Class
Money
Father
President
Several
Eastern
Generations
Attractive
Yale
George
George Bush
His
American
Upper
Upper-Class
Banker
While
Former
Bush
Grandfather
Standards
Poppy
Wasp
Socially
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Pope Paul VI
Anger
Nest
Cast
Stone
Wasp
Slow, skinny, and an utter countryside coward: I lived in dread of nettles, spiders, and the very sound of a wasp. As a victim, I was beneath the dignity of the bullies in my year but fair game to the ones in the year below.
Robert Webb
Game
Dignity
Coward
Slow
Year
Victim
Beneath
Dread
Spiders
Fair
Countryside
Fair Game
Sound
Bullies
Very
Skinny
Lived
Wasp
Utter
Below
I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the right way after Ivy League college and onward and upward. And it rejected me, I rejected it, and I ended up as a kind of refugee, really.
Spalding Gray
Me
Old
College
Everyone
Way
Guided
Right Way
Kind
Would
Onward
Simply
New
League
New England
Tradition
Up
Ivy
Ivy League
Ended
Upper-Class
Refugee
After
Upward
Really
England
Wasp
Right
Rejected
Raised
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