Word: ironwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such writing tends to be symbolie to the point where everything is a symbol and nothing is real, which is a point of meaninglessness. It tends to deal with undefined moods, hazily defined characters, and ponderously defined natural trivia, e.g., "They sat on an ironwood tree's outcropping roots, roots tangled like gray fingers in wild interplay with Medusa's hair." It tends to make the reader suspect that the author is sentimentally fond of writing, but unfortunately finds himself with nothing or little to say about people or events. Generally, although not necessarily, authors with something to say take...
...raiders. Enemy bombs bracketed our encampment and a few were killed and several injured. The Marines, cursing "Tojo" tumbled from their bedrolls to their foxholes and then back to bed again. The moon broke hazily through the scudding clouds and made splotches of pale light beneath the palm and ironwood trees. It was a typical night on Guadalcanal...
...were so slight as to be imperceptible. The House jumped on the Norton amendments ravenously. So infectious was the fun that New Dealers and Republicans joined in, soon inflated the Norton bill into a balloony caricature of a law. So many workers were exempt that Representative Frank Hook of Ironwood, Mich, heckled: "You have exempted everybody but the unemployed . . . might as well do that...