Word: littered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirkland students have objected that the "actions" of one of the cats have resulted in a recent large litter--that she, like Warren Harding, just "couldn't say no." But these objections accomplish little more than seemingly to transmute a human virtue into a feline vice...
...verse form so old that its origin vanishes in the mists of antiquity, the haiku is distinctly Japanese, like the no drama, where crossed planks do for a shogun's litter. No occasion passes, among haiku composers, without hundreds of commemorative haiku, frequently written on the spot. A thief, about to be hanged for his crime, couched his last words in the haiku form: "As for the end -/ that I'll hear in the next world./ cuckoo, my friend." For the lower-brows there are even earthy haiku, called senryu in honor of their creator, who died more...
...first term, Schlesinger was in prep school (Phillips Exeter Academy"), and today he writes of the New Deal with the nostalgia usually found in men who have narrowly missed a famous war. Schlesinger. now 41. sentimentally evokes memories that could not possibly be his own: "The interminable meetings, the litter of cigarette stubs, the hasty sandwich at the desk . . . the call from the White House, the postponed dinner, the neglected wife, the office lights burning late into the night, the lilacs hanging in fragrance above Georgetown gardens while men rebuilt the nation over long drinks...
...York last week only one spot greeted the newspaper strike with understandable equanimity: the Sanitation Department. Reported Commissioner Paul R. Screvane: "Litter collections...
...delegates were agreed on the diagnosis, but differed on the causes. Conference Vice President John Gibbs blamed the often deplorable state of Methodist churches-"unloved places" with litter at the door, peeling paint on the windows, sturdy weeds shooting out of the rainwater gutters. But most blamed the prevailing British mood of "humble" non-positivism...