Word: rustication
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...assure that last week's decision by the executive committee is upheld by the full Congress Committee (a gathering of more than 200 who almost invariably do as they have been told), St. Gandhi last week left his rustic village retreat, came jolting into Wardha on a bullock cart. Had the Mahatma expected opposition, he would have first half starved himself, then insisted upon walking instead of riding in a bullock cart, would have staggered into the Congress Committee and inspired his disciples with their oft-repeated "pangs of remorse for the suffering we cause the Mahatma...
...cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of la wing in the country. To make its point, the Journal printed a letter from a young lawyer who went rustic after three long discouraging years in Manhattan...
Reason: Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld was rumored to want played at his wedding the song of his native Lippe-Biesterfeld, a rustic German ditty with the hearty chorus: "Lippe-Detmold is a wonderful town, boom, boom, BOOM!" According to the Nazis, the Prince ought to have "demanded" that the Nazi Horst Wessel song or at the very least Deutschland Über Alles should boom at his wedding-particularly since Lippe-Biesterfeld was abolished as a principality by the German Republic. While the whole German press roared its wrath, the Nazi Political Police rushed around to the homes of three...
...Soonganding out thousands of words evidently concocted by mutual agreement to dispose of China's greatest kidnapping of all time as smoothly as Britain disposed of the one and only voluntary abdication in her history (see p. 13). Sleek, polished, cosmopolitan Kidnapper Chang declared: "I am by nature rustic, surly and unpolished, an impudent lawbreaker who committed a great crime. ... I was completely unworthy to return with you, Chiang Kaishek, to Nanking, so I have followed you. ... I shall never decline what is beneficial to our country even if it means my death...
When the 30 hunters straggled back to their rustic hotel that evening, only Professor Canning had bagged a boar. He told his story with becoming modesty: "Bryson saw the tracks and said, 'Get in front.' About that time he pointed out two boars in a briar patch. I tried to shoot the big one, but I started shaking and my eyes watered until I couldn't see. When I got control of myself the big one was gone. I shot at the smaller one and he went down. We got close and had to shoot three more...