Word: rumped
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...gift nor the inclination for the vivid rhetorical attacks on opponents that were the stock in trade of such old masters as South Carolina's Ben Tillman, who won the voters' hearts by announcing his determination to go to Washington and plunge a pitchfork into the rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland is the epitome of respectability-a devoted family man and a prosperous landowner for whom politics is a passion rather than a livelihood. And even...
...pick up servants and drivers who had worked for foreigners. An anti-Christian campaign was conducted under cover of the Communist-backed Three-Self movement, designed to cut the local churches off from the rest of Christendom, but failed when Roman Catholic authorities refused to bend to a rump Catholic Church that the Reds tried to organize. So Lo went ahead arresting missionaries, priests and clergymen as spies, or harried them into leaving the country. Of China's 6,475 foreign missionaries, only eleven priests (eight in prison and three under house arrest) and 14 Franciscan Sisters now remain...
...such scenes Wouk gives his people a special tang and zest. A Passover dinner at the Morgensterns' is turned into a hilarious romp by a progressively raised brat named Neville ("The Devil") Sapersteen, who bites little girls in the rump and needs 47 toy airplanes handy at all times in an open suitcase because, as the mother explains, they're "a sort of security symbol." ("Morris, leave the lid up or he'll get a trauma...
Heifers & Ducks. Ike indicated a near by pasture and said: "Let's take her down there and turn her loose." The President unfastened the gate himself, and slapped Irvington Roamiss Pear on the rump. "O.K., you're loose now, baby," he said. The heifer reared up on her hind legs, clicked her front hooves and gamboled into the pasture...
Entrees: chicken, rump steaks or fried shashlik...