Word: lambs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Raphaelite allegory, like Hunt's The Hireling Shepherd, 1851-52. This sunny, pastoral scene of two rustics flirting was actually a warning against the re-establishment of the Roman Catholic Church in England. The girl in the red skirt refers to the scarlet woman of Rome; the lamb in her lap is about to sicken from the green apple of false knowledge it has bitten; the sheep, wandering unattended into the corn, are the strayed flock of the Anglican clergy...
Before an electronic brain could be perfected, it would need a capacity to distinguish between the most minute nuances of languages and psychology. A common example: to translate the phrase, "Mary had a little lamb," a computer must distinguish between twenty-eight meanings such as "Mary owned the lamb," "Mary ate the lamb," "Mary gave birth to a lamb," or "Mary engaged in sexual activity with a little lamb." Because no researcher has yet solved this problem society-at least for a time-is till bafe from an electronic "Big Brother...
Haig will be remembered as the man who came in a lion and left a lamb...
...Rolando Lamb sank a 20-foot jump shot at the buzzer to lift Virginia Commonwealth to a 70-69 victory over Northeastern in the first round of the East Regional of the NCAA basketball tournament last night at East Rutherford...
With two seconds remaining at the Brendan Byrne Arena. Lamb took at inbounds pass from Michael Brown and sank a shot from just outside the foul line...