Word: lated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fights in Nanking between soldiers and anti-government student demonstrators injured 144 persons late yesterday following departure of an official mission to talk peace with the Chinese Communists. The students charged the government was making insincere peace overtures and that it actually was preparing for continued civil war. They also demanded better living conditions and attacked "American imperialism...
...glanced at his watch; five o'clock. Late again for cocktails. Vag broke into a slight sweat as he took a last look at the practice. Well, even if he didn't help out the team this spring, he could always kick points for Art Valpey next fall...
...snoozing beside his wife in the "Late Christian Epoch" (the 20th Century) when the Goddess "evokes" him into an unstated time in the future. At first glance, he thinks New Crete looks wonderful. Money and machinery have been abolished; matriarchy has made everybody happy; poets, witches and magicians are thick as nuts and considered an elite class...
...soon finds out, when the Goddess herself appears in the form of an unscrupulous female named Erica-a "triple-faced, ash-blonde bitch" with whom Poet Venn-Thomas had had a gruesome love affair in the Late Christian Epoch. What Erica does to overcivilized New Crete is something awful. She plants some 20th Century cigarettes in the closet of a cute little nymph named Sapphire; she fouls up the witches, hexes the horses, mortifies the magicians. By the time she's through, New Crete is on the verge of collapse-at which point Poet Venn-Thomas sensibly decides...
...stand out-as another rich expression of Robert Graves's fantastical mind. To laugh in the face of his Goddess is only natural; but without this pure yet beastly muse Graves would probably not be what he emphatically is-one of the finest poets of the Late Christian Epoch...