Word: devouring
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...them back from murder? Mere pity? Or was it the recognition of Pham's tears as their own, the knowledge that the boy was not weeping to save his own skin, but theirs, that he was weeping for all those who did ever, or will ever, or do now devour their young? Jubilee is suddenly noiseless. No sawing and drilling. No amplified announcements. The sun is frozen in the lowest pane of the classroom window. "What did you think when you realized that they were going to let you live...
...Stockman's purpose? A stalking horse, perhaps-the animal that allowed a hunter to hide beneath its belly until he could get close to his quarry. But it would be more than Mr. Stockman intended to suggest that the tax bill was an accomplice to those seeking to devour the people. A snake in the grass, then? No, because a snake would be immediately recognizable as an enemy. Nor could the tax package be described as a fox in a henhouse, a dog in the manger, a bull in a china shop, or a bomb in a bull (though...
...CLOUDS ARE PARTING, and the Democrats are beginning to enjoy the view from Capitol Hill. After a summer of humiliating legislative defeats, they cannot help but find it satisfying to sit back and watch a skeptical financial community devour any of the credibility President Reagan's economic policies once...
...works, Irving plays a game of cat and mouse in which he is a jaded feline devising kinky ways to devour his characters. He takes great pains to create elaborate family trees, but they are ultimately rotten at their roots. It's no wonder he's so popular; his books are just one big freak show, with bizarre high jinks and cheap shocks introduced regularly to titillate his audience...
...bomb blast at the Prime Minister's office was a severe, though not necessarily a mortal, blow to the beleaguered regime of the autocratic, 81-year-old Khomeini. But it was the most convincing evidence yet that as Iran's revolution continues to devour itself, the nation may be moving toward civil...