Word: runts
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...thought to be the stuffy monolith whose primacy was usurped in the '70s by the upstart Golden Harvest. That was the company smart enough to sign Bruce Lee when Run Run Shaw offered the actor a lowball figure, and to find budding star quality in a runt named Jackie Chan...
...kids. He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t mind taking them out of school on a random fall day and taking them to the science museum if he thought it would better their education in a hands on way. Though he is the runt of a large family, Antoinette’s husband has asserted his expertise over the home, leaving Antoinette to run her firm and be actively involved in community service...
This biography subscribes to the familiar narrative line that Bobby--the runt of the litter, Mother Rose's pet and much ignored by his powerful father, the unpromising younger brother of Hero-Martyr Joe Kennedy Jr. (blown up over the English Channel on a virtual suicide mission) and of Hero Jack Kennedy (PT 109)--had to claw his way to a sense of worth. "He was brave," Thomas writes, "because he was afraid. His monsters were too large and close at hand to simply flee. He had to turn and fight them...He became a one-man underground, honeycombed with...
Most of our major food crops today are the result of genetic manipulation by ancient farmers. Over time, a small runt of a plant has been transformed into one that produces the large ears of corn that we enjoy today. If not for genetically modified crops, civilization would have had a lot harder time taking off. DAVID P. GRAF Chicago...
...misfortunes accorded the runt of the litter are not, it seems, confined to the barnyard...