Word: hindes
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...hindered Barry. Explains friend Carl Johnson: "He's always operating off the backdrop that he's a black male, that he's not supposed to amount to anything." Notes Williams, who is black: "The ultimate irony is that if this guy were white, black people would be on their hind legs screaming...
...enacting an annual ritual. Chirping madly, the rivals dash at each other, tails raised, seeking to establish hegemony over the turf that will become a summer home for mate and offspring. The battle is fierce but short; the loser scuttles off into the sagebrush. The victor preens on hind legs, surveying a domain where shoots of bluebunch wheatgrass, Idaho fescue and larkspur have begun to sprout. It is springtime in the Rockies, and Yellowstone National Park is emerging from hibernation -- and recovering from the most troubled time in its 117-year history...
...Christian socialist with a running edge of apocalyptic disgust." And Potter's works have provoked disgust in the more easily shockable segments of the British public. The tabloid press denounced the Detective series as pornography, and as Potter recalls, "one Member of Parliament got up on his hind legs and said that he'd counted the number of swear words and bare bums. But that's partly because television is taken more seriously in England, which means more seriously by the fools as well." One scene -- a flashback of a desperate encounter between the writer's mother and her husband...
Within a month after becoming General Secretary in 1985, Gorbachev set about to cauterize the wound. In the weeks ahead, Gorbachev and his comrades must be prepared for the spectacle of their abandoned Afghan quislings hanging for ) their lives from the undercarriages of Hind helicopters as they lift off from the Soviet embassy roof -- or hanging dead from the lampposts in Kabul...
...compete," Harper reminisces. "We even traded molds. Nowadays the competition won't even tell you where they buy theirs. I think it's time to get out of this business." But then he drags Ray outside to inspect a new figure, a massive concrete hound balanced on its hind legs. The front paws could rest on the shoulders of a man 6 ft. tall. Harper did not make the dog: he bought it from another dealer. "I'm trying out the statue first before I order the mold," he explains, while Ray nods sagely. "I don't trust those hind...