Word: goats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that she might have milk, Papouas got Marianthi a goat, and also acquired the services of an orderly to milk and tend the animal. Marianthi knew that many simmoritissai who were sick, wounded, or burdened by babies had been left to die or be taken by the enemy; but she thought that such things could never happen...
Then came a desperate week of marching and hiding. There was almost no food. The goat fell sick, and then Marianthi and Papouas fell sick. The doctor said angrily that they had caught a fever from the goat. Papouas was captured by the enemy, and Marianthi, disheartened and dizzy with fever, gave herself...
...been sniping at it for thousands of years, heaping it with vulgarity and ridicule. When, says Reynolds, mustachioed Czar Peter the Great rebuked a Western ambassador for being effeminately clean-shaven, the envoy pertly retorted: "Had my royal master measured wisdom by the beard, he would have sent a goat." Peter, who had a marked tendency to kowtow before degenerate Western ways, was so impressed by this remark that he levied a tax on all Russian beards...
...story was pieced together later, this is what happened : the eight shambled over to Massachusetts Hall where Ray roomed, and walked in without bothering to be asked. Ray was wearing a green varsity sweater with a white "D" knitted into it. That also got their goat: Cirrotta had played freshman football and was entitled only to class numerals. One of them sneered: "You even sleep in it." "No," said Ray, "I was cold...
Last week, as chubby, goat-bearded little Sir Thomas was celebrating his 70th birthday, a good part of England was helping him along. Even the British press, in the recent past not so charitable about their great conductor's churlishness, blossomed with flowery lead editorials on the great day. Said the Times: "Music is the medicine of the mind and Sir Thomas . . . is among the best doctors of the age, combining high professional skill with a highly popular bedside manner." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Sir Thomas . . . has always been and will always be an individualist. Everybody, including those...