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Word: deere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's stanzas often blend poetic reflection with political undertones. Typical is Communions, which describes the shooting of deer at the L.B.J. ranch in Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Muses' Choice | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...century. It is stuffed with what its leading character, Berowne, describes as "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise./Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,/Figures pedantical." And there are hundreds of puns, many be-labored mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'Love's Labour's Lost' Midst Rock 'n' Raga | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...frightfully inadequate gun laws if they spent a few days watching the "weekend warriors" being brought into Temple's accident dispensary, also known as the Tioga Knife and Gun Club. If you really want to see the lead fly, go to the Poconos on the opening day of deer season; it makes the Tet offensive look like kid stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 28, 1968 | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

...recently advertised replicas of the derringer pistol as the dandy little model that killed "two of our country's Presidents, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley." Another suggested: SUBMACHINE GUN FOR FATHER'S DAY? Yet another offered, for $99.50, a 20-mm. antitank gun, "ideal for long-range shots at deer and bear or at cars and trucks and even a tank if you happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

...great stretches of the West?notably Montana, Utah, Colorado and Idaho?a standard fixture in most rural homes is the .30-30 in the corner, the universal "thutty-thutty" deer rifle. In the South and Southwest, rare is the farmer who does not keep a rifle in his pickup all the time; Lyndon Johnson used to have a deer rifle clipped under the front seat of his Lincoln while at the ranch. In Alaska, shooting is a way of life?and often of preservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE GUN UNDER FIRE | 6/21/1968 | See Source »

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