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...woman, will not have him as a servitor, and he retreats at last to a ramshackle hut on the coast of Brittany to live in humble poverty. This, seemingly, is his final penance, for Aide comes to him: "She took his hand, and they went on together to the hayfield through the cool heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God & Woman | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Space will not permit a challenge to the statement of Cambridge Police Chief Patrick J. Ready that Cambridge "is no hayfield," but I would like to take issue with the validity of the assumptions upon which the overnight parking ban issued by Cambridge and the University is based...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO CARS FOR EVERY GARAGE | 10/17/1953 | See Source »

...came with the stumbling, heavy-footed steps of the funny papers' drunken husband (reeling home at two a.m. with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Fact | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...student in the hayfield or the stockroom it was a personally relevant war. If you were a reservist living in a number of states or holding a number of ratings this was a simple one-two relevance the war called you and you want to it. If you were between 18 and 25, unmarried, strong of body and sound of mind, there was perhaps a year, as best, intervening between one and two. No matter who you were, this distant, limited war was there a fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Fact | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...student in the hayfield or the stockroom it was a personally relevant war. If you were a reservist living in a number of states or holding a number of ratings this was a simple one-two relevance the war called you and you want to it. If you were between 18 and 25, unmarried, strong of body and sound of mind, there was perhaps a year, as best, intervening between one and two. No matter who you were, this distant, limited war was there a fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Summer Fact | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

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