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Though seven African nations signed up for an anti-imperialist "Second Bandung Conference" of Afro-Asian governments, touted by Chou, he failed notably to sow the seeds of Red China's virulent anti-Americanism. This failure was most pointed in Guinea. When Chou attacked the U.S. position in Panama, he was disappointed to find Sekou...
...dress' means one with no distinguishing characteristics; 'romantic' means 'cleft to the waist.' " She regularly takes excursions far afield. Sometimes she drafts axioms that are applicable to the opposite sex: "No nice men are good at getting taxis." "If your wife looks like a sow's ear, try dipping into the silken purse." She excoriates local hairdressers: "I left the salon at 7:15, by 8 it was slipping, by 9 it was down, and it was not even that sort of evening...
...course is available as a full course to the same student through two, three or four years, it will become in effect a major field of concentration. Since qualified professional teachers will be unwilling to stay in Cambridge indefinitely, especially if they must begin with a new batch of sow's ears every year, the administrators of the course will be faced with the continuing problem of maintaining a consistently high level in the quality of teachers...
Golding's careful variation of tone largely explains his success. He combines the simple narration of a boy's adventure story ("Ralph inspected the whole thirty yards carefully and then plunged in"), Biblical phrases which suggest the allegory ("The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her") and brutal statements which leave no doubt about the allegory ("Piggy glanced nervously into hell"). His style features effective personifications -- take "the lagoon attacked them" and "the laughter beat them...
...medieval days any dog, hog, horse, donkey, mouse, rat, beetle or swarm of flies charged with a crime could get a fair trial-complete with sharp-tongued defense attorney and a day before the bench. When a sow was hanged for devouring its young, a dog executed for biting children, or a rat pack or fly swarm ordered exterminated, there was no question about it: the whole legal system of the 15th century was in there pitching...