Word: mewing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes. The old bourgeois-baiter composes a contented ode to his new kitchen and a hymn to hot baths, a worried incantation against insomnia and some earnest lines on the higher significance of regularity. It is both absurd and touching to see the aging lion mew so meekly. He seems humbly grateful for the small favors of existence, humbly aware of the failures of his private life. In a poem about bedrooms he writes sadly: about blended flesh...
...blunder. After the long-drawn-out bloodbath of Verdun, an ambitious new commander in chief, General Robert Nivelle, staked his career on a decisive punch through the German lines which, he implied, would end the war in weeks. The fanfare and prepara-:ions were so grand that the Germans mew all about it in advance. Nivelle knew they knew it, but he went ahead anyway. And from April 16 to May 9, 1917, French troops flung themselves against the Germans' barbed wire, entrenched machine guns and presighted artillery until 130,000 French casualties had piled up. Morale collapsed...
...reputedly one of the richest in the world-is shy, strapping A. P. (for Arnold Peter) Mø11er, who, at 85, still likes to sail himself to work in his sloop Karama III. In his storybook rise from merchant's apprentice, Mø11er (pronounced roughly Mew-lehr) has always believed in one precept besides making money: do something for Denmark. Mostly, what he has done for Denmark is to invest in it. With the profits earned abroad by his 85-ship Maersk Line and his 25,000-acre Tanganyika sugar plantation, he has built his country...
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