Word: lepere
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...probable quick death (Pat has to poll that magic 5 percent in November to hang onto his federal dollars, and it doesn't look good). Of course, His Pitchforkness may even clear the bar and make the party a showcase for the country's most poisonous voters - a political leper colony with a pundit for a messiah...
...side masled beneath the organization's "glossy facade." Said's history with Let's Go points to the confusion over professional conduct in a student extracurricular. After returning to work after a vacation, during which she had contracted pneumonia, Said was unexpectedly fired. "They made me feel like a leper. I wasn't welcome there," she recalls. "There was whispering. People were told not to talk to me. It was like The Firm. It was like a big conspiracy." Said says the reasons for her termination were never explained, but she surmises either that her extra vacation days--she took...
...website burning after a multitude of hits by Hittites, and he heard the clatter of hooves: a herd of crazed swine trotted down the hall, little pink eyes aglow, pagers clipped to their ears. On his way out, he touched his nose and found a boil. A leper lay in the lobby begging alms, and when Bill Gates dropped in a nickel, the power went...
...websites were restored. The leper was promoted to general manager and put in charge of the crazed swine, who, under the Americans with Disabilities Act, had to be kept in their current positions. Most of them were vice presidents, though, so it didn't affect the value of Microsoft stock...
...wasn't until she had set up a leprosarium outside Calcutta on land provided by the government that I began to see her as an idealist rather than an eccentric. Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection. The ultimate terror the city held had nothing to do with violence. It was fear of the Other, the poor...