Word: miscreants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides burning, what would constitute the "physical" desecration some of our political leaders emphasize they hope to outlaw? Does that include obscenely wagging a finger at a flag? Sticking out one's tongue at the flag? Thumbing a nose at the flag? What if some miscreant mooned the flag? Or stuck pins in the flag -- in public...
...sitting by while his wife and daughter were fatally raped. But this time he is unaware that the whip has been dipped in curare. Harry Lantz, a sleazy womanizer, curls to death when someone adds an electric hair dryer to his bath water. And the head of another miscreant turns up in a Washington garbage dump. There are a few survivors, notably Professor Mary Ashley, "the opposite of the ugly American," plucked from her Kansas home to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Rumania. Mary attempts to build bridges with the Communists, but "the gods," malevolent figures who use code names...
...town. With the assurance of safe passage out of Manila and asylum in the U.S., Marcos at least chose to leave without shedding blood. If the U.S. were to now leave these men out in the cold,it would make it tough in the future to get other miscreant leaders to abdicate without trying to hang on until the bitter, bloody...
...writers' love of verbal play. In A Manual for Manuel, Cortazar characterizes different types of secret policemen in a string of richly suggestive alliterative words, hormigon, hormigucho, etc. In English, a literal translation (big ant, big clumsy ant) would have been ungainly. Rabassa's solution: dominant, sycophant, miscreant...
...going up at an astounding rate. The new kids are easy to train. They have a better sense that the world is a pretty dangerous place and that somebody's got to defend all those things that we believe in." The days of a judge telling a miscreant to join the Army or go to jail are over. "We won't take a man if he has a parking ticket outstanding," said Nashville Navy Recruiter Tony Thomas. Indeed, the services frown on would-be recruits who have not finished high school. In 1980, 68% of the enlistees...