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Word: chigger (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bested Ted as once he beat the killer rabbit, down in the chigger latitudes. He smiles (force of habit) and meditates upon the Garden, like some mildly triumphant parson. Nearly four years pass behind his eyes: golden days, cardigan days, Billy Beer days; the abrupt surprise of Russian nastiness and the South Bronx ghettos. His reveries sweep to Jordan 's squirted Amarettos (a fancy drink for a good ole boy) and Vance and Lance, and jogger's tibia and all the money Billy made for being friends with Libya. But nothing can efface the joy of this renomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: America Needs a Poet Laureate, Maybe | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

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