Word: dismounting
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...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...
...world crying out from the streets, Deng appears to have reverted to a hoary Maoist maxim: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." With devastating carnage, Deng proved he could unleash the firepower. But now that his regime is riding the military tiger, can it dismount without being torn to pieces...
...worry his coach or teammates, he kept the torturous pain to himself ("My whole blood was boiling at my stomach") and performed wondrously on the side horse before glancing ruefully up at the rings. Everything in Fujimoto's ring routine looked normal until the grimace just before the dismount, when he compounded his fracture with a dislocated knee and crashed in a heroic heap. Last year Tim Daggett also powdered a leg bone, and the training sight of a bandaged man on the rings stirred the memory. Last week he failed to make the team...