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...about three-quarters of the country's people) is the ancient game of Hornuss (from the German for "hornet"). Hornuss is a rough, hard-hitting mixture of golf, baseball, cricket and guided-missile warfare. Peaceful farmers summon up martial blood when they get playing Hornuss; Swiss city folks sneer affectionately at the game as "stratosphere pingpong," but they turn out in droves to watch it played...
...epithet plucked from a newspaper caption over a picture of ill-dressed demonstrators: "The shirtless ones who roam our streets." The Peróns caught up the sneer as a weapon...
...already won the decision, and is just waiting until it is made official. Fighting Bob became magnanimous Bob; he was quicker to smile, less inclined to the harsh word, and seemed to feel a little sorry for his Republican opponents. Now & then a slight sneer flitted across his face, but on the whole he was a much more appealing television personality than the Fighting Bob of the last six months, who often looked ready to eat the microphone...
There are less tangible benefits as well: membership in the fellowship of educated men, possibility of membership in a Harvard Club, extra letters for those who feel their names are too short, and a part interest in the withering sneer which says, "Why should I argue that Harvard is better than your college, when deep down we both know...
Successful crammers may sneer at this advice, but Christophe says the student forgets more than he learns after 2 a.m. Cigarettes and coffee are taboo, too, he claims, because they keep the person physically, but not mentally, awake...