Word: butt
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Racism is the proximate cause of Conchon's rage, but all man's inhumanity is the ultimate butt of his abhorrence. In scenes both hilarious and scarifying, he slashes at the sickly fear, pride, cruelty and self-deceit that hide behind the name of love until they dare assume the shape of hate...
...times his mother's heart ached for the poor child and she decided that he was a permanent invalid and had to be carried everywhere. Everybody suspected that the boy was not necessarily a cripple, but it was not unpleasant to have somebody dependent around, an easy butt for the sort of generosity that makes one person feel big because it makes another person seem small. So all through Ali's childhood the good people of the village carried the little cripple everywhere he went and felt invincibly virtuous on this account...
...face over 15 rounds last week-with a left jab that was curiously described by sportswriters as "savage," "snapping," "a bullwhip" and "the finest jab any heavyweight has shown since Joe Louis." Curiously, because Chuvalo didn't even blink. The best blow of the night was a butt by the Canadian that opened up a one-inch gash over Terrell's left eye. "He butted me deliberately," Terrell complained afterward. "He stepped on my toes. He was spitting in my face, trying to blind me." Nonetheless Ernie won a unanimous decision and retained his W.B.A. title. For whatever...
...Ship of Fools) Dunn. Smart received a phone call during a black-tie concert from a receiver in his shoe. Then he sat down in Dunn's child-sized chair and walked away with it stuck to the seat of his pants, puffed madly at Dunn's butt-sized cigarettes, and generally behaved in outrageous taste. But somehow by the show's close, against the dull grey background of his colleagues, Moron Maxwell Smart seemed brighter than anybody. And funnier...
Divorced. By Phyllis Diller, 48, raucous-toned nightclub comedienne; Sherwood Diller, 52, her manager and longtime butt of onstage gibes; on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, five children; in St. Louis...