Word: dismounted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...petty attempt at making us comfortable in the Lamont reference room ends in disaster way too often. Cracks in the "upholstery" shelve loose change and general grime and also render exposed skin vulnerable to unsightly redness upon dismount...
...about 30-40 seconds, you should be experiencing a "brownout". This is a period of semi-consciousness in which you are not completely aware of what you are doing. Many describe feeling "unstoppable", as if they are chugging in slow-motion. This is the point at which you should dismount...
...Bare Hips that the Red Guards have caught Old Whore, a local woman accused of prostitution, and will parade her through the streets to the place of public denunciations and punishment. White Cat is excited at the promised spectacle, as is everyone in the town; a bleak place like Dismount Fort offers few public diversions...
...moral quandary posed by this story--the difficulty, given the context of the people and mores of Dismount Fort, of defining proper or humane behavior--permeates Under the Red Flag. Ha Jin is not a preachy author. He offers his characters choices that are incompatible and potentially destructive and then dispassionately records what they do next...
...dismount the man, but to see together that women get horses," Johnson said...