Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet colleague shows an Asian friend around the Moscow zoo, while endlessly expounding on the possibilities of achieving peaceful coexistence. The Russian points with pride to a wolf and a lamb apparently living happily in the same cage. For the first time, the Asian is impressed...
...easy," says the Russian. "We simply put in a new lamb every...
...Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community now are forging a destiny of their...
CYRUS THE GREAT (309 pp.)-Harold Lamb-Doubleday...
Thus, according to Author Harold Lamb in his ninth excursion into what he calls "biographical narrative." did Cyrus the Great of. Persia find a way to conquer Babylon while disguised as a servant. No one can be sure how much of the story is true, for as Lamb himself says, "all the verified historical data about Cyrus could be published in no more than six pages." Lack of evidence has never bothered Lamb before: by combining the sparse clues available with a high sense of drama and a thorough knowledge of the ancient world, he has become master...