Word: horror
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Love is home. But home may be a horror also, a cage with wild animals in it. Home is aligned on the side of life, and so the perversion of it (by incest, for example; by violence; by betrayal) is a filthy business, and sometimes evil...
...lights went out just after 7 p.m. Then a granade exploded and gunfire was heard. With that, a street corner in Petionville, seven miles outside the capital of Port-au-Prince, was turned into a horror scene of shattered bodies and mangled limbs. Seven people were killed and 54 wounded...
...duplicity and horror of the Vietnam War should be recognized and assiduously avoided. But contemporary anti-war protestors invoke the memories of Vietnam as a cheap rhetorical device. Regardless of the legitimacy of U.S. involvement in the Persian Gulf, that intervention should not be equated with the war in Vietnam...
There are, of course, the horror stories. Melinek says she heard about an interviewer at the University of California-San Diego who asked an applicant if she had any friends. When the applicant answered "yes," describing her friends in the House, the interviewer shot back, "I don't mean acquaintances, I mean friends...
Still, applicants agree with Dorsey's estimate that the horror stories are more "lore as opposed to truth...