Word: bloodlusting
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...rapidly faltering Chicago White Sox on Monday and Tuesday, because the way the Pale Hose have been playing lately they couldn't draw a full house if Wilbur Wood promised to arrive on the mound in a sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer. Of course, given the level of bloodlust in Boston lately, there may well be a big crowd...
...Dartmouth bloodlust was too much for the Crimson--the Greenies punched across a try late in the half, and in the second half added ten more points...
...slick fantasy world. But when you're inventing fantasy to entertain your children during a long, boring car trip you leave out the details that enrapture the slavering American male. You retrograde modern romance, back to Northrop Frye's original "love and adventure" formula, away from modern "lust and bloodlust." And you even leave out most of the "love," to concentrate on your heroes-intrepid rabbits surviving against all obstacles. Richard Adams wrote that fantasy and called it Watership Down: it won both British awards for children's fiction in 1972, and then came to roost in the best seller...
...Crow, for instance, calls Hoss, "Feathers," meaning horse feathers, but also meaning that Hoss is chicken. Everyone should be provided with a text before they enter the playhouse. If the words are often unclear, their intent is not. This is language as an instrument of murder, of a primordial bloodlust deep in man's loins. Pacifists of the world, take fright...
...Combat Man." With proper leadership, the basic assets of the Korean soldier quickly asserted themselves. He has the good qualities of the World War II Japanese soldier-fierce courage, tenacity, obedience, and ability to live and fight on a shoestring. But instead of the bloodlust and ruthlessness of Japanese militarism, he is animated by the strongest urge known to military men-defense of one's own land against an invader...