Word: shrub
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...never met a cat I didn't hate. It's not just that I dislike the moon-wailing, shrub-fouling, people-using critters. What gets me is they don't have to be licensed, while my house-confined mutt does...
...with a light tongue in cheek. It seems The Supreme Being (pictured for most of the movie like one of the Wizard's apparitions, a disembodied, blustering head, but then realized on earth by Sir Ralph Richardson in a rumpled suit) has demoted these midgets from their tree-and-shrub supervision. Their sin? "Wally here made a tree 300 feet tall, with pink leaves,...that smelled awful!" This is the tone of much of the humor--old hat, but cute. The dwarves were supposed to repair "holes in time" marked on a precious map of the universe. They instead pilfer...
...your life back like some kind of ornamental shrub. I couldn't put the old white horse out to pasture, hock the tin armor, stand the lance in the corner of the barn. For a while, yes. For the healing time...
...Peres felt, correctly, as it happened, that Socialist François Mitterrand would win, and that there were signs that the new French President would do everything possible to "make the Iraqi reactor impotent, militarily." Peres also warned Begin that the raid would leave Israel as isolated "as a lonely shrub in the desert...
...Iran were loaded with even more equipment. An infra-red device, for example, was added to scan the territory ahead of the helicopter at night and give the pilot a TV-like picture of the approaching terrain. Even in a pitch-black night and at altitudes as low as shrub level, the pilots of the Sea Stallions would be able to see clearly where they were heading...