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Word: gourd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that stalk the nights of the superstitious. Pierre's movement stirs up the rats nesting in the thatched roof, as well as his wife Annaise and three young daughters. Annaise lights a fire with a few scarce twigs, then boils coffee with the last drops of water from a gourd and sweetens it with a piece of sugarcane. Her daughter Melina, 6, places the gourd on her head and begins a morning-long walk to a well. Mercius, meanwhile, picks up his wooden hoe, balances it on his shoulder and scuttles down the mountainside to till a field of millet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti In the Land Where Hope Never Grows | 11/7/1988 | See Source »

...thrilled out of my gourd," said ThomasWinship '42, former editor of The Boston Globe...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Beginning is Formal, Frivolous | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...meaning to their Harvard experience, the current Black students have tapped into a rich wellspring from which they can draw great resource in arranging perspective; for the history of Harvard Black him is replete with examples of positive inspiration: Richard I. Greener, William Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. DuBois, Ned Gourd in, Leo Hansberry, Edwin Jourdain, William Hastic, Bob Moses, Barry Williams, Theodore K. Lawless, Ralph Bunch, Robert Weaver, Whitney Young, Arthur Mitchell, Mondedcia Johnson, John Hope Franklin, Countee Cullen, Eve B. Douglass (Radcliffe)--the list goes on and on. It would be a rewarding experience for students to become even more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Alumni Weekend | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

...pumpkin is basically just a big goofy gourd...

Author: By Gregory M. Daniels, | Title: A Lime and a Pumpkin | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

...rein in the intrinsic oddity of her metal flora. So one does not get distracted wondering what this or that thing was: what counts is what it now is, its role in a larger system of metaphors that circles back on nature. One would need to be a bronze gourd oneself not to be delighted by this artist's ebullience and delicacy of feeling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intensifications of Nature | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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