Word: donkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novels, Chick Swallow deserves a wide hearing. His troubles may not be every man's, but every man will understand them. He is modest: "I think I can say my childhood was as unhappy as the next braggart's." He is reflective: "Man is not a donkey lured along by a carrot dangled in front of his nose, but a jet plane propelled by his exhaust." And the surest guarantee that his difficulties will induce immoderate laughter is the fact that he is the creature of Peter De Vries, whose Tunnel of Love (TIME...
When the dust of the political tornado in Minnesota had finally blown away last week, it left the Democratic donkey standing there without a head. Minnesota had unseated Adlai Stevenson, but it had not enthroned Estes Kefauver...
Giant Mandolin. At 4 a.m. one day last week, the streets of Port-of-Spain were quiet, but an occasional lighted window showed dark figures stirring. At 5, donkey carts laden with coconuts were moving towards the market, passing sidewalks packed with quiet crowds. Finally, a clock chimed 6, and, as if unleashed, the crowds ran and danced out into the streets. Trinidad's Carnival was under...
...onager is not a mule or a jackass but a rare forerunner of the donkey. One of these Iranian animals resembling a small zebra with a pink back is now at the Bronx Zoo in New York City, thanks to the cowboy tactics of Bronson M. Potter '55. Another is awaiting someone who would be willing to pay his transportation from Iran...
...donkey's sure and nerveless plod Past ruined columns of a god Made dactyls on the ground...