Word: cryptics
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Frequently diffuse and cryptic, Miss Oldenbourg's account nevertheless rises on occasion to a passionate eloquence which perceives (and persuades) that physical cruelty is a pure manifestation of evil. As a temporarily absolved prisoner, De Montbrun is forced to watch the Inquisition's heretic burnings in Toulouse. Through the swirling clouds of smoke, De Montbrun sees "the bloody contorted bodies writhing like snakes on poles-the raw heads, the faces blistered and bursting, and still screaming. It was ugly; never had human faces been so ugly...
...Cryptic, idle, he'd quadrupled your mother's ancestral fortune...
...President's return to the game prompted a question at his press conference last week. "I wonder," asked a reporter, "if you could tell us how you feel and how you enjoyed returning to what has been reported one of your favorite sports?" The rambling and somewhat cryptic reply: "I like it. I was-didn't think I was going to play golf again until my trip-I don't want to get into a discussion of back difficulties-but my trip to Europe, I think, helped-getting out of that office did something. So I enjoy...
...shown "pornographic photographs" to "a mixed gathering in New York and seemed to treat it as a joke." Added the judge: "I do not commend his standard of taste and habits." Home with Harvey. Though Argyll had already discovered suspicious letters to his wife and a diary inscribed with "cryptic" signals, he "succumbed to her charms," as the court put it. Thus, the duke, said Judge Wheatley, had "condoned" his wife's adultery with Von Braun by resuming marital relations with her in Paris. The divorce was granted on the grounds of her adultery in 1960 with Harvey Combe...
...today's locust fighters have a new and glamorous aid. U.S. Tiros weather satellites have proved to be reliable anti-locust spies. To cryptic reparts from wandering Bedouins, Tiros has added observations made while circling on its high orbit. Its cloud pictures predict locust-bearing winds, and prompt warnings can be drafted. Thanks to U.S. spacemen, African locust invasions no longer come as unpleasant surprises. Threatened countries can now count on time enough to organize a chemical counterattack...