Word: herring
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...browbeaten soldiers can clearly be traced back to Durer and then down through George Grosz. In his wispy cloudlike sketches and pastels lurks the orchidaceous venom of Odilon Redon. In his zinc-plated etchings there are shades of Max Beckmann. One, entitled Klee and Ensor Fighting over a Smoked Herring, acknowledges the artist's debt to both...
First of all, you ought to spell the names right. "Cherry herring," "Ferari," and "Mercedez" are somehow less impressive than they might be. And you oughtn't qualify them. After all, you really shouldn't admit that you actually know that people exist who need subtle things like "Leif Ericson (the Norse explorer)" or "(the New Mexican artist) Georgia O'Keefe...
Economically, the U.S. has the wealth to meet its domestic needs and still go on fighting the war abroad. The argument that it can't is a "red herring." "Why do I say it's a red herring? Because we are an affluent society -- Ken Galbraith's right. As long as we are buying and selling over nine million automobiles we can't be said to be without the resources...
...Four operations (plus 30 days in jail) later and 58 lbs. lighter, he went to work on Benbow's 2,600-acre cattle ranch in Yoakum, Texas, tossing 80-lb. hay bales to rebuild his atrophied muscles. Finally, last June, Williams scored a third-round TKO over Tod Herring, the tenth-ranked heavyweight contender, thereby won a shot at Champion Clay...
...clear that Khrushchev wouldn't have lifted a finger to help Nixon get elected dogcatcher. The Communist boss described Nixon as "an intellectually limited" man who "produces the impression of a slightly fraudulent, petty storekeeper, capable of selling tainted herring or representing kerosene-soaked sugar as good merchandise." (The statement was made some time before Khrushchev himself came to be regarded by his own associates as a handy fellow with a tainted herring...