Word: surginger
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Refusing to Fade. Surging out of the forest, 1,000 Red troops overran Kienlong in the guerrilla-controlled Camau Peninsula area (see map), killing 60 of the 90 Civil Guard defenders, and publicly disemboweling the district chief, his wife, infant son and two other officials. When the government counterattacked with...
Unlike most of his contemporaries, the tempestuous Lewis championed the intellect against the senses, ultimately turning on all his friends for deserting rationality. He had a horror of the "surging, ecstatic featureless chaos which is being set up as an ideal, in-place of the noble exactitude and harmonious proportions...
More than neighborliness was behind the government's withdrawal. Foreign investment in Canadian firms declined from a $600 million peak in 1960 to $130 million last year. Canada's economy has been surging, with the result that Canadians themselves have the wherewithal to buy a larger stake in...
Mother Joan, the nun possessed by eight devils, is the symbol of Poland, the Polish soul, the Polish intellectual. Her surging passion is the stuff that Poles think life is made of ("We drink hard - live hard - play hard," they will tell a foreigner). But when this passion is forced...
One of the first prosecution witnesses, Police Reporter John Rutledge of the Dallas Morning News, testified that Ruby was "a loudmouthed extravert" who loved to strut wherever there was big action. Rutledge said that he saw Ruby at police headquarters at least three times on the night of Nov. 22...