But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

It took thirty of our women almost six moons to build this one, which is higher and stronger than the old one.

I clapped the big man with the bleached hair on his shoulder and said heartily, hoping it would make an impression on the women: `` This one is the maku Frayne.

`` This one is a tender chicken, oui??

but he presents it publicly so enmeshed in hypocrisy that it is not an honest one.

My definition of this much abused adjective is that a reconstructed rebel is one who is glad that the North won the War.

For one thing, this is not a subject often discussed or analyzed.

The general acceptance of the idea of governmental ( i.e., societal ) responsibility for the economic well-being of the American people is surely one of the two most significant watersheds in American constitutional history.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

Today, as new nations rise from the former colonial empires, nationalism is one of the hurricane forces loose in the world.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

But it is more than irony: one of the main reasons why nationalism is no longer a tenable concept is because it has spread throughout the planet.

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

However, the system is designed, ingeniously and hopefully, so that no one man could initiate a thermonuclear war.

It is not a medieval mental quirk or an attitude `` unnourished by sense '' to believe that husbands and wives should not be subjected to such a risk, or that such a possibility should not be permitted to endanger the confidentiality of the marriage relationship.

`` You are bound to get involved with people when you have children '', Fran had told me at our first meeting, `` so it is good to know that those with whom you get involved are not just dreary little housewives and dull husbands, but People Who Do Things ''.

It is on them alone that the future of their race depends, for all their relatives ( mothers, husbands, brothers, and unmated sisters ) have perished with the arrival of the cold weather.

There is general agreement also that sex union between husbands and wives as an expression of mutual affection without relation to procreation is right ''.

It is they who read -- and make -- Jewish best-sellers and then persuade their husbands to read them.

How It Works, compared chauvinistic husbands to the hedgehog from a well-known Russian fable, The Hedgehog and the Fox ; they have one way of thinking, and it is so engrained that they cannot change it.

Celibacy is required of monastics — monks, nuns and friars — even in a rare system of double cloisters, in which husbands could enter the ( men's ) monastery while their wives entered a ( women's ) sister monastery.

" Thus, it is two-way, mutual submission of both husbands to wives and wives to husbands.

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

In the Persian culture, everything is encompassed by love and all is for love, starting from loving friends and family, husbands and wives, and eventually reaching the divine love that is the ultimate goal in life.

Polygyny is the most common form of polygamy ; the much rarer practice of polyandry is the form of marriage in which one woman has two or more husbands at the same time, usually among brothers or males of the same family.

2300 BC ), the former custom of polyandry in his country was abolished, on pain of the woman taking multiple husbands being stoned with rocks upon which her crime is written.

* Among the Hephthalites, " the practice of several husbands to one wife, or polyandry, was always the rule, which is agreed on by all commentators.

* Among the Kanak of New Caledonia, “ every woman is the property of several husbands.

It is this collection of husbands, having one wife in common, that ... live together in a hut, with their common wife .”

When a man is married to more than one wife at a time, the relationship is called polygyny, and there is no marriage bond between the wives ; and when a woman is married to more than one husband at a time, it is called polyandry, and there is no marriage bond between the husbands.

This stylistic variant is also used in depicting the Haitian Voodoo loa Erzulie Dantor.

The most common depiction of the loa Erzulie Dantor is derived from this variant of the sacred icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa.

He is considered to be married to Erzulie Freda and La Sirene.

His wife / companion Ayida Weddo, the rainbow serpent – he is also married to Erzulie Freda – is also a Loa of creation.

In Haitian Vodou or Vodou, Erzulie ( sometimes spelled Ezili ) is a family of lwa, or spirits.

Erzulie Fréda Dahomey, the Rada aspect of Erzulie, is the spirit of love, beauty, jewelry, dancing, luxury, and flowers.

Coquettish and very fond of beauty and finery, Erzulie Freda is femininity and compassion embodied, yet she also has a darker side ; she is seen as jealous and spoiled and within some vodoun circles is considered to be lazy.

In her Petro nation aspect as Erzulie Dantor she is often depicted as a scarred and buxom black woman, holding a child protectively in her arms.

A common syncretic depiction of Erzulie Dantor is St. Jeanne D ' Arc, who is displayed carrying or supporting a sword.

* La Sirène or Mami Wata is partly associated with Erzulie and sometimes is displayed in Erzulie's roles as mother, lover, and protector.

* Marinette Bras-Chêche or Marinette Bwa Chech (" Marinette of the Dry Arms "), a Kongo Loa, is similar to Erzulie Dantor.

* Ochun or Oshun, a Yoruban river goddess, is similar to Erzulie Freda.

Erzulie ( Freda ) is also a character in the broadway musical Once On This Island as the beautiful goddess of love.

A powerful swamp witch / voodoo woman in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Witches Abroad is named Erzulie Gogol.

In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic Past Lives, part 4, Erzulie is invoked to clear a room of all magic.

Mademoiselle Charlotte is served in a manner similar to that of Erzulie.

In Vodou, it is believed that a common depiction of Erzulie has its roots in copies of the icon of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa, brought to Haiti by Polish soldiers fighting on both sides of the Haitian Revolution from 1802 onwards.

In her Petro nation aspect as Erzulie Dantor she is often depicted as a scarred and buxom woman, holding a child protectively in one hand and a knife in the other.