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...Devil, who had ruled despotically for 14 years, survived repeated rebellions, and liked to behead his numerous enemies in public. No one is quite sure why Sallal was plotting against the Imam, but one theory is that Sallal is a Nasser sympathizer and Nasser hated the Imam for a rude poem he had once written about Arab socialism...
Moving from the jungle was a native with elephantiasis . . . pushing a rude wheelbarrow before him. In the barrow rested his scrotum, a monstrous growth that . . . weighed more than 70 pounds and tied him a prisoner to his barrow...
...which they lived. To the eye they are stubby, smallish, powerful near apes, covered with reddish fur. But they are dimly intelligent, although their minds do not work like those of Homo sapiens. In addition to the simple tools and religion that archaeology dictates, Golding gives them a rude telepathic sense-although he deals with this so restrainedly that it never seems a science-fiction gimmick...
Thunderous Picnic. The death ended a literary vendetta as implacable as any feud in the Kentucky hills. Tall, handsome Stanhope and rude, arrogant Curtal spent a lifetime competing for women, fame, friends, disciples and the minds of men. Atheist, lecher and revolutionary...
...what is most striking about the communique from Professors Hoffman and Kissinger is their rude refusal, within the local community of scholars, to argue soberly in behalf of their evident commitment to test resumpton. Instead of answering the protest, they pretend to explain it in the manner noted above. Prior to this letter, such rhetoric was the special property of Goldwater, Nixon, Buckley and Welch. Now it is introduced into the Harvard community in this defensive and fake "answer" to a protest against a government policy which the writers themselves admit is open to legitimate challenge...