Word: rhinocerosity
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Between lovers' quarrels and reconciliations, Peck shoots a charging rhinoceros,' fights lukewarmly on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, writes a succession of bestselling novels, and spends his spare time feeling desperately sorry for himself.
He suggests that the stone was used to insure success or offer thanks in the hunt. Perhaps on one occasion, someone carved a picture of an animal on the rock. Since the following hunt was a successful one, the natives believed that the stone was invested with supernatural powers. They...
Last week, Premier Thakin Nu, a devout Buddhist, whom Burmese call "the man with the rosary" because he daily prays for peace, once more called for a halt to the "evil cult" of gun rule. In Rangoon, jeeps and Studebakers owned by Thakin Nu's partisans hustled voters through...
...rhinoceros has no political significance. It was chosen as an identifying symbol because rhinoceroses are rare in Burma and hence presumably hard to duplicate. That, anyway, is how the Burmans reckon...
Last week the golden curtain at Man hattan's Metropolitan Opera House went up on Khovanchina for the first time. As the gloomy drama rolled along, at the lumbering pace of a sullen rhinoceros, the audience was sometimes confused by the Russian palace politics, put off by the arthritic...