Word: meridian
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...Meridian, Miss., Bob Goodman was arrested for bigamy after being divorced by two wives on consecutive days and remarrying the first one the day after that...
...strained through Stanislavsky's mustache. When he first meets Hana-ogi, he believes that "fraternization is a disgrace to the uniform." But he has to admit that she is "a fahn-lookin' woman," and the color line soon becomes as vague in his mind as the meridian of Greenwich. "I will love you, Gruver-san," she murmurs to him one day, "if that is what you desire." That is what he desires, all right, and after much too much Brandoperatic declamation about "what mah reason fuh livin' is," he decides that he also desires to marry...
...Star. Two Moonwatch teams near Washington have already had live practice. At Springfield, Va. 20 observers arranged themselves after dark under an odd-looking "T" of iron pipe with dim lights glowing at the ends of its horizontal member. The T showed the meridian, and the observers trained their telescopes so that their overlapping fields covered a north-and-south slice of sky through which the satellite should pass...
...carp at his ability as a teacher, and no one doubts his talents as a recruiter of potential poets. Even British Poet Stephen Spender has referred a prospect to him. Englemen wrote fully one-third of the poems in Poets Under Forty, to be published this summer by the Meridian Press. And Henry Rago, editor of Poetry magazine, says: "No poet in the U.S. has done as much for young poets as Paul Engle...
Endlessly westward from the 97th meridian stretch the Great Plains of the state of North Dakota, fertile in places, arid in others, baked by the summer sun and blown by the winter wind. Here wheat is grown, hard red and durum, and herds of beef cattle meander across far-ranging pastures, silhouetted against low horizons; here more than 40,000 shining combines work 63,000 well-kept farms. The farmers are apt to feel sensitive when casual visitors from lusher and more verdant places refer to their hard-worked land as a desert...