Word: beastes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horse would come into its own. But Sir Osbert loathed horses, especially the one he had to ride. "When the Commanding Officer used to send for me, as he often did-and, I may add, with no view to congratulating me on my efforts-this agile and vindictive beast would often set off towards him at the fastest gallop, meanwhile, by one of his tricks, causing me to measure my length in the intervening wastes of snow and sand, and there abandoning me, would arrive, the cynosure of all eyes, the solitary half-centaur moving through this vast expanse, panting...
Midway in the war, little Jones is browsing happily around in Astyparaean, a language no one has spoken for 50 centuries. There he encounters an old god, name of Zotz, who confers on him a weird and deadly power. Any insect, beast or man that Jones points at falls in a hideous faint; if he both points and says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing...
Prison life is real life, too-stripped of all pretensions and pleasures. An uncivilizing process, prison life almost inevitably reduces man to the status of a beast living for mere survival. Prison demands the best in man, often brings out the worst...
Pravda would make as much sense as Eaton if it concluded that Americans were wicked because their name was derived from Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian and, therefore, a Fascist beast. Not even Pravda would try that. Eaton's article drew an angry and effective answer from Alexander Kerensky, who has been fighting the Soviet Government since the Bolsheviks kicked him out of the presidency of Russia 30 years ago. Wrote Kerensky in last week's New Leader...
...compounding abstruseness with misstatement. TIME's PEOPLE editor has been sent back to Beast Barracks...