Word: ol
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...side and seized it by the muzzle with his right hand and placed his knee against the goat's throat and thus strangled it. Joseph said this was the kindest way, but the American doubted it. It was done, anyway, rather tenderly. Joseph and Olentwala chatted easily in Ol' Maa as the goat spasmed and spasmed and spasmed, and at last expired...
...midmorning the Masai pause. The cows graze, and the herdsmen shelter lazily under a grove of olive trees. Moses and Olentwala joke in Ol' Maa. The visitor stretches out and makes notes: "Moses has killed six lions, more than 60 buffalo. A buffalo wounded his brother last year, and he wants to kill lots of buffalo. He points to a buff. skull on the forest floor and says he killed that one there several months ago. Cows grazing all around me now. M. shows me a 'buffalo's house' -- a hollowed out space among the olive trees where the buffalo...
Eying my Harvard ID, he growled, "Y'all's law students, ain'tchyus?" He was practically drooling at the opportunity to squash uppity academia with some good ol', hands-on law'n'order. "Why no officer, we're undergraduates...
...amusing nor very thought-provoking. Indeed, it is difficult to see what Allen was hoping for with Radio Days. The bleak seriousness that he offered as proof of his new maturity in Interiors gives way in Radio Days to saccharin nostalgia, the type of forlorn longing for the `good ol' days' that could most generously be labelled "poignantly...
...tossed myself over the barrier and started across the field when I saw that there was someone at work over to my left. A group of people picking, a smaller group of people watching, a truck, baskets of strawberries, German shepards--big ol' dogs. Inching closer, the pickers were darker than those watching...