Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Montgomery said that the purpose of the class was to see what it was really like to produce such plays in Medieval England. The students' translations maintained the same rhyme scheme and meter of the original language...
...produced six more offspring. Although her husband's laundries fail on both coasts of the U.S., her growing family maintains a beleaguered survival. To Brave Orchid, all non-Chinese are "ghosts," alien, powerful presences who are otherwise beneath consideration. Her new life consists of uneasy dealings with "Meter Reader Ghosts, Tree Trimming Ghosts, Five-and-Dime Ghosts." She is even suspicious of her children, her daughter notes, "because we had been born among ghosts, were taught by ghosts and were ourselves half ghosts." So she "talks-story" incessantly, trying to fill her daughter's head with a usable...
...hardly be labelled "irresponsible" for not telling them it had been accepted by Padan Aram. Och, I did not invite the rivetters in. I am reminded of Richard Nixon's political technique of discrediting opponents by, e.g., asking them to wriggle their way out of implication in the "parking-meter scandal": the more elaborate the proofs offered, the more skeptically are they received, and the more real the fictitious scandal grows...
...Harvard team, which earned its slot in yesterday's race by sweeping last Monday's IC4As in New York, ran extremely well. Despite the white-hot pace and the unusually long and flat 10,000 meter course, most of the Crimson finishes were strong...
Died. Hondo Crouch, 60, self-proclaimed mayor of the central Texas town of Luckenbach (pop. 21); of a heart attack; in Johnson City, Texas. Crouch bought deserted Luckenbach "lock, stock and parking meter" five years ago. He invited visitors to such celebrations as a Susan B. Anthony Chili Championship and the Luckenbach World's Fair, which drew 10,000 last year...