Word: molese
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The warning is perhaps too late. In Casanova's Chinese Restaurant,* too many events happen offstage (people get married and die, as it were, in parentheses), and Powell seems to have thrown away the novelist's Godlike privilege of always being in at the kill. But he retains...
The Moles of Fate. The legendary patriot leaders of Greece's struggle for independence from Turkey-Theodoros Kolokotronis and Petrobey Mavromi-chalis-campaigned from the Mani. Indeed, Mavromichalis was a Maniot who, in countless forays against the Turks, lost 49 relatives. He nailed the heads of Turks whom he...
This probably seems like the height of modernity to a people who like to point out the island where Paris took Helen the first night after he stole her from Menelaus, and who still retain the purest links of Greece's pagan past. Old Maniots are convinced that Nereids...
It was as dank and dark a sitdown strike as even militant or desperate men could survive, and soon about one-third of the strikers, worried about their families or tired of living like moles, got out by emergency exits. Wives and children of the remaining strikers gathered at the...
The London Times was swamped with letters from outraged bunny lovers. Some of the loudest objectors were fox hunters. In the absence of their preferred prey, ravenous British foxes turned to moles, rats, blackberries and garbage cans. They lost the stamina they used to build up chasing rabbits, no longer...