Word: castor
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...learn anything from examinations. Those who don't work cram in the last minute and exhale their knowledge in a heavy sigh after the ordeal is over. Ergo; it can't be the students who gain anything from examinations. They just take and excrete them like castor...
...politicians entirely by instinct, perhaps because his mother had attended a nominating convention just three months before his birth. And he was afraid of saviors of youth, because he knew by experience that as soon as anyone started talking about saving youth, it always meant something unpleasant like castor oil. And anyway, Vag was sure that the main thing youth had to be saved from was people who'd grown old so soon that they'd never had time to find out what it was like to be young...
...Dyhydrol, a paint vehicle made by dehydroxylation of castor oil, to compete with imported tung...
...always-loaded, pearl-handled revolver and by a solid gold Virgin, he has thought up many a mystic fetish, many a fiendish thuggery. He abolished the handshake in Italy. He designed the black Fascist uniform. He is generally supposed to have been one of the inventors of the castor-oil technique of punishing political recalcitrants. And he has been one of the most important nuts keeping Rome tightly screwed to the Axis...
...This castor-oil operation may, as the Italian press claimed, merely have removed faithful servants so that other faithful servants might have their hour. But foreign commentators could not help noticing an obvious common denominator: the important purgees were strongly pro-Axis. Only ministers left were Foreign Minister Count Ciano, popular Minister of Justice Dino Grandi, Premier Mussolini himself (War, Navy, Air, Interior), and three others-the neutrality bloc. Italy, it seemed, wanted no entangling alliances...