Word: limerick
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...Patty Limerick, 55, director of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado in Boulder, found solace in friends who surrounded her in the small hospital room the night her husband Jeff died suddenly of a stroke in 2005 and who stayed by her side in the weeks and months afterward. But she found she still needed time alone to grieve not only the death of her husband but also the end of their happy 26-year marriage. "For almost two months, I lay on the floor at night sobbing while listening to Marty Robbins sing...
...Kennedy's office with his hide intact--and a map of Ireland. Sure enough, Kennedy had been assembling every scrap of information he could get about Roberts and had discovered that the ancestral home of Roberts' wife is a mere 10 miles from that of Kennedy's mother in Limerick...
Best way for a guy or girl to get your attention: Good dance moves, a really fast down-in-one, a clever limerick, or coming to a Harvard volleyball game with a dancing santa
...back expressing thanks and explaining, "Of course I care about [my] poems a million times more." In another letter he summarized an essay he was contemplating called "The Age of Criticism": "Brothers, if you write enough criticism like this, in the end nobody will even want to write a limerick." It did not escape Jarrell's notice that he was a prime example of a tendency he deplored...
When Stanley Watras, a Bechtel Group engineer assigned to the Limerick nuclear-power plant in Boyertown, Pa., set off radiation monitors last winter, that in itself was unusual. Nuclear-plant workers rarely come into contact with radioactive substances during their daily routine. What disturbed Watras even more was that he tripped the detectors not while he was leaving the nuclear complex but when he was entering it. As a result, he requested that Limerick's owner, Philadelphia Electric Co. (PECO), check radiation levels at his house in Colebrookdale, Pa., a few miles from the plant...