Word: jackassical
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...good boy," wrote a mother to her son, "and get a haircut." It was too late. Airman Third Class Donald Wheeler, 20, stationed near Tokyo, did not "want to walk down the street looking like a shaved jackass," so he was court-martialed...
...play many of the tantrum qualities that won praise for her part in the hit play and movie, The Bad Seed. As superlatively played by Teresa Wright, Annie was a no-nonsense teacher who refused to turn the other cheek. She fulminated against her charge ("pigheaded little jackass"), even slapped her occasionally. Nor did she mince words with the too-solicitous Captain (Burl Ives) and Mrs. Keller (Katharine Bard): "Helen's worst handicap isn't blindness, it's your love and pity . . ." The story closed movingly on Annie's first real triumph with Helen. As water...
...Ecstasy Sauce that Bounder J. Roundheels must have for the Roast Rump of Tree Dwelling Elephant that will get him into the Gourmet's Club. From the first Sadie Hawkins' Day episode in which L'l Abner wriggles out of Daisy Mae's arms into those of a jackass, to the last where he is "hopelessly, permanently, (maybe) married," nothing is certain in this uselessly enjoyable book where all the natives of Dogpatch gleefully race "their (gulp!) destiny to a (sob) stalemate...
...onager is not a mule or a jackass but a rare forerunner of the donkey. One of these Iranian animals resembling a small zebra with a pink back is now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, thanks to the cowboy tactics of Bronson M. Potter '55. Another is awaiting someone who would be willing to pay his transportation from Iran...
...have a home across the valley. To begin with, Singer Martin will build a small house (bedroom, kitchen, bath) on the plateau, which is 250 miles from the nearest telephone, and is reachable only by plane and a final bruising 30-mile drive over roads that would discourage a jackass, let alone an uninvited guest...