Word: gnat
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...generally admitted that Samarra and Butterfield 8 are brilliant, but they were done so long ago that they are no defense for their author, gnat-bitten by reviewers in middle age. What is not admitted is that A Rage to Live, Ten North Frederick and From the Terrace are excellent novels. From the Terrace. the best of the three, stands almost alone in U.S. fiction as a thoroughly successful study of a man reaching for the highest financial power. The novel is 897 pages long; it lacks drama and is built, like most lives, entirely of minutiae. It moves slowly...
...seven other spellings that sound the same, like the eau in beau and the ough in though. There are 27 colors for consonant sounds. The sound of n in no is lavender, as is the kn in know and the gn in gnat...
...winning combination of youth and age, the CRIMSON took control with a seven-run outburst in the opening stanza. From there on the only question was whether manager Don "The Gnat" Graham would be able to hold the score down to a merciful...
...last beach in Lisbon. There Schwarz's cancer-ridden wife commits suicide. To the fatalistic companion who has listened to Schwarz talk through the long night in Lisbon, the tale later seems reminiscent of an insect embalmed in a flat piece of amber-"the death struggle of a gnat, preserved in a cage of golden tears, while its fellows had frozen or been eaten, and vanished from the face of the earth...
...Gnat & Sure Shot. In the past few months, two of the worst bandit leaders-el Mosco, the Gnat, and el Sultan-have been killed. Between them, they accounted for 500 murders. Most of the bandits are ordinary killers, but Communist and Castroite agents are busy in the backlands. Last week Pedro Marin Marulanda, a well-known Red who calls himself "Sure Shot," destroyed an army helicopter, murdered its two crewmen and kidnaped the passengers. Bandit Frederico Arango, who was killed last year, had a five-foot bookshelf of Communist bestsellers, including Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare. Pedro Brincos, also...