Word: mares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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bare dare fare pare rare ? from care hare mare tare ware yare
...Bridges remarked delicately that "she felt that there were statements in [her husband's] philosophy which implied a fundamental opposition to the theories behind our project." But undaunted Director Abbott galloped over England and the U.S., roping poets left and right-". . . lunch at Taplow with Walter de la Mare . . . the Isle of Wight with Alfred Noyes. . . . Witter Bynner adobe-housed at Santa Fe . . . Louis Untermeyer [cornered] in a cool fastness of the Adirondacks. . . ." Director Abbott sometimes corralled as many as five poets a day ("undeniably taxing"), and found his largest rewards in New York City, where, he says, poets...
...average U.S. citizen completely ignores the regularity with which the automobile kills him, maims him, embroils him with the law and provides mobile shelter for rakes intent on seducing his daughters. He takes it into his garage as fondly as an Arab leading a prize mare into his tent. He woos it with Simoniz, Prestone, Ethyl and rich lubricants-and goes broke trading it in on something flashier an hour after he has made the last payment...
...Squash Courts." Though the U.S. and British zones have been merged since last winter, there has not been time enough to erase national idiosyncrasies. In some aspects the British zone is as British as Weston super Mare. Approaching the medieval city gate of Lübeck, one can scarcely see the gate for the sign on it: TO THE SQUASH COURTS...
What Makes the Mare Go. Their plan recognized that money, even if it pours in from the U.S., is not everything. Four overriding conditions must prevail to bring Europe back to health...