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...causing it to dilate and ultimately lose its elasticity. Floor sitting, in which the legs are horizontal rather than vertical, prevents this pressure from building up. Alexander's hypothesis implies that varicose veins can be avoided, but only at the cost of discomfort for the rump-not to mention the furniture industry...
...problem, only rebound emotionally off surrounding situations. He expressed himself through actions, which, in the clogged Brewer-Mt. Judge landscape, made him incomprehensible to more interiorized residents. His mistress never quite understood why Rabbit asked for a blow-job, or Mrs. Eccles why he slapped her on the rump. But Rabbit had his reasons, deep-rooted ones, true to his sympathetic nature. And because he was tired of lives too needlessly convoluted for direct personal response, because if we are in hell, we must build something to protect ourselves, and to build with the second-rate is to fall into...
...Ostpolitik. The Ukrainians want an independent patriarchate, but the Vatican has refused because modern patriarchates are national churches. This would give encouragement to Ukrainian separatism, upsetting Vatican diplomacy toward Communism and the Russian Orthodox Church. In desperation, Slipyi and 14 bishops defied papal orders and held a well-planned rump "synod" of their own, with moral support from 150 Ukrainian laymen who flew in from North America by chartered plane...
Weinrub had chaired a rump meeting of about 60 persons who had gathered near the site of the colloquium an hour and a half before the scheduled talk. The meeting discussed several possible methods of making Land discuss the South Africa issue, ranging from a takeover of the podium to waiting for the question-and-answer period following his speech...
...Chodrow charged that Weinrub, as chairman of the rump meeting, had violated the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities by failing to overrule discussion which advocated a violation of the resolution...