Word: meed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...door of the old house and picked their way through a jungle of cobwebs, worm-ridden period furniture, a hall jammed with bottles of curdled milk and old clothes piled higher than a man's shoulders. A menagerie of budgereegahs, canaries, pigeons, dogs and cats had added their meed to the midden. Cowering in a corner, covered only by a tattered red blanket, hunched the man who had screamed at the window. His matted beard reached his knees. The nails of his toes and fingers curled in uncut proliferation. The police soon identified him as "young Harry Tucker...
During the nine-day period between the King's death and his burial, most Britons had had their meed of public grief. "There is now a widespread feeling that the formal solemnity is being overdone," observed the Manchester Guardian. "Gloom, gloom, gloom drips forth from the BBC," complained London's Daily Express. But as the King's body lay in state at Westminster, Londoners felt a strong sense of history and a deep compulsion to share it. "I said to myself, Elsie, you put on your hat, I said, and take a bus and go up there...