Word: leper
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...sound, it was a true variation of the secret ballot. Now, hard rubber balls are used; though they drop noiselessly, rumor has spread among Yugoslavs that they fall with a distinct "plop!", and that anyone who does not choose the Titoist list proclaims himself as publicly as a medieval leper with a bell...
...deeply religious son of a Presbyterian minister, Dr. McNeilly saw his chance when the Navy announced that the post of officer-in-charge would soon be open at one of the world's newest and most remote leper colonies, on the flat, tiny Pacific island of Tinian, once a B-29 base. Dr. McNeilly asked...
...Tinian, 32 square miles in the Marianas, polyglot leper patients may come from any of the thousands of islands scattered over the watery 3,000,000 sq. mi. of the Trust Territory (former Japanese mandate). Dr. McNeilly will have a warrant officer, four corpsmen, three native nurses and two native aids to help...
...still simply Chambers' word against Hiss's, and defense attorneys spared no effort to discredit the stocky, 50-year-old editor, writer and farmer, who was himself an admitted perjurer, who had once betrayed his country. The defense attorney in the first trial called Chambers a "moral leper," in the second, with the help of psychiatric testimony, a "pathological liar...
...Failures in art," he said, "take refuge in abstract art, in morbid art, in perverted art-in short, in infamous art. These failures are like a leper who . . . insists on exhibiting his awful ulcers . . . [They] stimulate themselves with cocaine, morphine, marijuana, alcohol and snobbism . . . There is no room for abstract or morbid art in . . . the Peronista doctrine, for Peronismo is a doctrine of love, of perfection, of altruism, which soars with a superhuman quality into the skies. Peronismo is a doctrine of the virtues of a people . . . who know what is beautiful and what is ugly, who can distinguish...