Word: er
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mate into a psychopath of the seas, lurking around the harbor of the fishing village where Harris does his brooding. Orca is soon wreaking much colorful havoc on the townspeople and their works. In the end Harris is forced to put to sea and fight like a fish - er...
According to The Totalitarian Temptation, Communist regimes are judged by what they promise to do; oth er states are rated on their deeds. The de nial of freedom in Communist-dominated Peru, for example, is excused by many leftists as a historical necessity on the road to the socialist paradise. The same behavior in Chile is denounced as fascist repression. Revel makes the pro vocative point that while many fascist regimes have come and gone, and a few have even been liberalized, not a single orthodox Communist regime has disappeared in this century...
...Glaswegians with similarly high fidelity. At first glance, the dialect seems designed to try the reader's patience: "If there's no somethin' wrang wi' her the noo, there'll be somethin' wrang wi' her when Ah get ma haunds oan 'er." Gradually, though, the "hoot, mon" appearance of words on the page disappears, replaced by the odd, lilting music of street, sitting room...
Possibly to ensure repeat sales, the store provided free sundaes for those 350 ladies who turned up. In a half-hour, they consumed 16 gallons of ice cream, four gallons of chocolate, butterscotch, strawberry and pineapple toppings, plus quantities of chopped nuts and whipped cream. Er, Farrah, maybe you had better move over a little bit more...
...paintings and - perhaps most fondly - for its truffles and foie gras. It also happens to be the home of Peripherique, a six-pound black howler monkey and rogue male, whose treetop wanderings inspired local farmers to name him after the high-speed roadway that encircles Paris. Like all howl er monkeys, black or red, Peripherique has an amazingly overdeveloped set of vocal chords: his mere coo, echoing across the valley like the roar of a hungry lion, has startled many an unwary tourist. Rather more astonishing is the fact that he roams the Dordogne at all. Peripherique's proper...