Word: marees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Walter de la Mare's The Guardian, in which a high-strung boy becomes attached to a ghost who represents death...
...splendor over China, a conqueror who had been softened by the pleasures of the conquered. Legend does not exaggerate his luxury. Each of his four wives had a palace with 500 virgins as serving maids and retinues of up to 10,000. Kublai also maintained 10,000 spotlessly white mares for the production of his favorite tipple, fermented mare's milk (kumiss). Twice a year the country was scoured for concubines. Yet Kublai Khan was a wise ruler who brought un paralleled prosperity to China...
...meat. She has excelled at tennis, swimming, diving, bowling, shot-putting, lacrosse, fencing and polo. She can type 86 words a minute and has been heard to say of her husband, George Zaharias, a 300-lb. ex-wrestler: "Yep, I threw him last night with a flying mare...
...commissioned a Richmond-bound friend to ask Lady Wonder where he could find the body of Danny Matson, a four-year-old boy from Quincy, Mass., who had been missing for two years. The mare tapped out: Pittsfield water wheel. Dewing sent a detective to Pittsfield, Mass. The investigator found two water wheels but no body...
Lady Wonder, a 27-year-old mare, can't talk a word. By pushing rubber disks with her nose, however, she can make letters pop into view on a special alphabetical board. Dewing asked her to tell him his father-in-law's first name. She tapped out: MARION, the correct answer. Dewing was happily astounded. But it wasn't until he got home that he realized he had overlooked a great opportunity...