Word: offalling
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...sleep and work, and that's about all of it. The federal system has too many bureaucrats. I always had the unexplained sense of great eyes watching me. And they go in for psychological brainwashing." At the moment, Kasper was laboring with three other prisoners, collecting litter and offal on county roads. Allowed one of his guards: "He'll pick up a dead dog quick as anybody...
When decapitation and crucifixion were not effective, the shoguns invented tsurushi, in which the victim was suspended head downward in a pit, often partly filled with offal, to hang in agony sometimes a week or more before dying. "The persecuters were well aware that entire districts would be depopulated if all Christians were killed," says Drummond, "and so from the beginning they aimed to make apostates rather than martyrs." Many Japanese preferred to give up their Christianity. But a surprising number held out to the death. In Shimabara 36,000 men, women and children, offered the way to freedom...
Nobody loves Hammer more than a Windsor butcher who has grown fat on selling the studio his offal: lamb tongues, entrails, eyeballs. Such "authentic art" is a priceless asset to Hammer, which also fills theater lobbies with promotional displays of headless bodies floating in tanks...
...Offal. When the conference chair man rang a bell to signal the end of his speech, Hailsham ebulliently seized it, crying: "Ring it much more loudly! Let it ring for victory!" As 4,000 Tories came to their feet cheering, he slowed it to a solemn pace, saying: "Toll it solemnly...
...Britain's ruling Conservatives the overriding issue clearly continued to be the control of the country's climbing inflation. Prime Minister Macmillan, recalling "how eagerly we queued for a bit of off-ration offal" during "six years of Socialist restriction," proclaimed that the difference was that Conservatives believed the state was made for man and not man for the state...