Word: runt
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...advice, I would launch into an attack trying to win a few pieces. By third grade, I had mastered the rudiments of the knight fork. By fourth grade, I was pondering the implications of the pin. For a while, I met with success--chess became a way for a runt to get back at the world...
...name-calling, Whitlam gave more than he got. In Australia's rambunctious House of Representatives, where debate is often a euphemism for denunciation, Whitlam has described Liberal Cabinet ministers variously as "bumptious bastard," "queen," "dingo" (Australia's version of a coyote) and something that Hansard recorded as "runt" (which at least rhymed with the actual word). He once became so enraged with one Liberal minister that he dumped a glass of water on him. That minister was Paul Hasluck, who later became Governor General of Australia and, in an antipodean twist of fate, found himself swearing Whitlam into...
...sooner has Mickey polished off his newest thriller, The Organ Grinder, than he is approached by an unlikely p.r. type named Ben Dinunccio (Lionel Stander) with a mysterious proposition that turns out to be a commission to ghostwrite the autobiography of Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney). Gilbert is a runt who grew into Hollywood's No. 1 celluloid hoodlum and who, boasts Dinunccio, "boffed every leading lady he ever worked with...
...precisely Vonnegut's back-of-the-comic-book approach to serious matters that led to his enormous popularity, especially with young readers. His novels are clear, simple, funny, humane and need hardly any explaining at all. His Dynamic Tension draws the beach bully and the runt who is getting sand kicked in his face toward the same bitter fate. Both will grow old, die and vanish in a universe that is 99.9% indifferent vacuum. There are no immortal souls in Vonnegut, only the soles of the feet which his Bokononists in Cat's Cradle warm by ritually flattening...
...Cloister and the Hearth. Her pages are dotted with sarplers, live-lodes, oxters, and muster-develers. 'Zooks if anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor displays rare qualities of social conscience...