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  • Meanwhile, Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig stirred up a hornet's nest during an interview with three young-looking coeds masquerading as blind Girl Scouts when he seemed a bit hazy on the sport's organization.

    The Gotcha Videos You Haven't Seen Joe Queenan 2011

  • It turns out Evelyn is actually the daughter of powerful baron Noah Cross John Huston, and the seamy revelations only mount from there, drawing Jake deeper into a hornet's nest of incest, betrayal, and corruption in seedy 1930's Los Angeles.

    John Farr: On Her 70th Birthday, a Tribute to Faye Dunaway John Farr 2011

  • "It really stirred up a hornet's nest," remembered Adele Henderson, one of the original bucket testers.

    The Center for Public Integrity: Where regulators failed, citizens took action -- testing their own air The Center for Public Integrity 2011

  • We had a hornet's nest on our hands, and to stop at Collinsville would be to have it about our ears.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • In the season opener, Raylan steps into a hornet's nest of folksy malice while tracking down a sex offender in the Bennetts' employ named Jimmy Earl Dean — "Three first names, triple winner right off the bat," Raylan muses.

    Roush Review: Dim Sunshine, Glorious Justified, FNL Farewell 2011

  • They are willing to put their lives on the line to protect this country, even when our politicians have, with breathtaking ineptitude, tried to address our foreign policy problems by showing the world how they solve the problem of a hornet's nest in their backyard by beating it with a club.

    Palin accepts apology but says time for change 2009

  • When I ask her about those notional books and what they might represent, she becomes thoughtful: It's such a hornet's nest, but absolutely fascinating to me as well: the whole thing that, if you're a woman, and you write about families and relationships, you have to do a bit of work to make sure people don't dismiss you.

    Tessa Hadley: A life in writing 2011

  • Whoo boy LOST has been kicking over hornet's nests the past couple of weeks as we got to see Ole Smokey's hidey hole, among other interesting things.

    Tube Bits For 04/13/2009 2009

  • Were it the work of David Wojnarowicz (the artist behind the crucifix video) or Andres Serrano (of "Piss Christ" fame), this Bible would doubtless stir up a hornet's nest.

    Thomas Jefferson's Cut-and-Paste Bible Stephen Prothero 2011

  • He's been kicking this hornet's nest around, thinking that solving it will get him closer to Beckett.

    Castle Season 4: What Happens After "I Love You"? 2011

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