Word: hags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although she was but 45 years old, Nukashook had about reached the end of her days. In the tiny village of Eelounaling on Boothia Peninsula, one of Canada's northernmost Eskimo settlements, children regarded her as a cross and ugly old hag. The "spitting sickness" (tuberculosis) had long plagued her and her teeth were gone. One day last summer, while she lay coughing in her tepee, Nukashook called to Eeriykoot, her 21-year-old son. "I am suffering too much," she said. "Put up the rope so I may kill myself...
...jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat his father. He gave up the title Sword of Islam, called himself Saif el Hag (Sword of Truth...
...woman, an awful-looking hag, pushed her face through the window of the car and spat in my face...
Theological Schizophrenia. Editor Morrison has no illusions that anti-Catholicism will butter any Protestant parsnips. Protestantism can never win America, he knows, unless it boldly stands up to "proclaim its own gospel." It will never do this, he thinks, as long as it is hag-ridden by the twin evils of old-fashioned conservatism and liberalism...
Just what do you critics expect from a generation that has been brought up on comic books, flabby popular music, motion pictures that are hag-ridden by the Hays office and the Legion of so-called Decency, and the unending flood of nauseating pap that drools from our shiny little radios? Who is responsible for the fact that our young men now helling about Europe and lousing up the reputation of the U.S. have their heads stuffed with nonsense...