Word: besottedness
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Besotted soldiers went to the shelter openings, called on the men to come out. There was a burst of machine-gun fire as each emerged-the parish priest, village officials, farmers, townsmen, 23 men in all. Women and children, cowering in the tunnels, were not molested (but one infant was...
The Regimental Ball still lives in our case-besotted heads. Well, why not? It was quite a shin-dig. Naturally all the boys from the South flocked to the affair, it being held in the GEORGIAN Room.
"Do we accept Mr. Wallace's vision of 'the century of the common man' in even so modest a degree as is implied in the establishment of complete equality, of educational opportunity, of the career open to talent, of easy promotion in all walks of life from...
"This mouthy, pretentious, calculating little climber . . . this degraded knave . . . this glib, vulgar, slippery little jackleg . . . that posturing sometime reformer . . . the twenty-two goats and monkeys who composed the grand jury . . . this blank-brained menagerie, bamboozled by transparent obfuscations ... the gang of sneaking child-cheaters . . . these two low, skulking rogues . . . and...
King Ibn Saud, a man who has been credited with the strength of 40 men, and actually has 40 sons, is protected by an efficient police force. In pilgrim-packed Mecca last week they suddenly arrested on charges of plotting regicide one of the most notorious wastrels in the Near...