Word: jarringly
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...cabin, his labor, his prospects. They cleared and planted twice the past year's acreage. Settling up in the fall, Otis skinned the Negro so unmercifully that he drew a knife. Otis Town smashed in his skull with a singletree. Then he went to the cabin with a jar of vaseline and a piece of red ribbon, which he gave to the woman. Next winter, Mammy bore him a son and called...
...spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle, As I go ridin' merrily along. And they sing, "Oh, ain't you glad you're single!" And that song ain't so very jar from wrong...
...Government agencies were strong for increased home canning, for each jar of fruit put up at home leaves a commercial-pack can for the armed forces, and more freight space for shipping other foods. WPB had provided enough glass jars, paraffin, rubber rings, OPA chipped in the sugar, and, with the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics, passed out hints for spreading it thin: can fruits in their own juices without adding water; put up without any sugar and sweeten later out of current sugar allowances; use honey to replace half the sugar called for, corn syrup...
...puffed-up shadow, there was not a single plane on the island. Only 60 miles from Sicily, Malta was promptly written off by the British as impossible, to defend. But while Italy still controlled Sicily, Malta's war was a seesaw affair of brief, bravura raids and dolce jar niente. Not till the Luftwaffe took over did the real pasting come, and Malta become history's most heavily bombed island...
...less because of his age than because he has come more & more to favor his worst poetical fault-his rascally independence, based on preternatural selfesteem. When full of this-and he is only occasionally entirely free of it-Frost writes like a wise man ensconced in a pickle jar...