Word: burnting
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Ever since he was burnt in 1966 when he vigorously supported Samuel Silverman for New York County surrogate and barely won, Kennedy has been reluctant to be pushy in state politics. He played no part at all in choosing a 1966 gubernatorial candidate, thus handing the nomination to O'Connor--a man who is too party-ish to suit the Kennedy style...
...were in the country, all right, but traffic hadn't improved. The roads out of Saigon are long extended sheets of olive-drab and camouflaged steel armaments--tanks, truck convoys, rifles, soldiers, fortified bridges, occasional burnt-out vehicles. Everything and everybody had an edgy dug-in look. In any direction you looked you could find a column of smoke or a helicopter hovering over a fixed spot...
Ghastly Embrace. In numb horror, the other survivors stumbled out to look for wives, children and friends. They held handkerchiefs and cabbage leaves to their faces to ward off the smell of burnt flesh that hung over everything. One by one the dogholes were emptied, giving up the fire-red, bloated, peeling remains of human beings. Charred children were locked in ghastly embrace, infants welded to their mothers' breasts...
...turpentine in a pail and added scalding water over this. Priscilla sat on the paid and I wrapped a blanket around her. The fumes were supposed to make her abort. This was done three times a day for three days. The only thing that happened was that I burnt her bottom...
...bouquet of roses to be showered on an audience in fond profusion. To Pinter, language is sniper fire: laconic, staccato, precise, designed to cut down the people one hates. He uses two kinds of speech: words that are dead and words that can kill. The dead words are the burnt-toast banalities of daily life: "I've got your corn flakes ready. Here's your...