Word: feral
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...Poland and the Reich, his gigantic armies were (in Winston Churchill's feral phrase) "tearing the guts out of the German Army." In the world at large, his ambiguous political purposes were giving the creeps to practically everybody except professional Communists and those men of good will for whose professional unrealism (when it turns up among Russians) Stalin had always saved his most scathing barbs...
Except for this feral foible, the Bororos are quiet folk. Their hearing is abnormally acute, their language so low in pitch that it is difficult for a white man to hear them. They often sit on stumps at a considerable distance from one another and murmur softly. Apparently each Bororo is muttering to himself. Actually they are telling stories which are the primitive stuff of all humor. Sample: "Once upon a time the jaguar had a fight with the rabbit. The rabbit won!" Then all the Bororos burst out laughing...
...Lolly Parsons is a survival of Hollywood's great decade, the 1920s, and she still has (almost alone now) the untamed crudity, savage innocence, feral force and daft grandeur of that Medicean cinemera. Much of the malice, many of the rumors, and most of the moral solemnity which are directed against her tell less about Lolly Parsons than about the loss of heart, toughness and humor in the changing world around her. She is wielding a halberd among the gas-masked, and the lawyers of war do not approve...
Fourth-generation proprietor of Dildo Cay (pronounced key) and its salt works, Child-of-Nature Hayden parries civilized Miss Carroll's feral advances with reels of mumbo jumbo about the futility of woman's existence on the desolate cay. When he finally weakens, the best he can offer is: "We'd better fish...
...previous institutionalization of Lucas at the Grahamstown Mental Hospital, the distance of Grahamstown from Burghersdorp (where he was allegedly found among baboons), and the fact that there is no mention of the baboon incident in the Mental Hospital records, all would seem to discount the existence of a "feral" period in Lucas' life...