Word: mooned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anything she yelled for it. If it didn't come fast enough, she cracked someone on the head with a stone. When Raven was hungry, he snagged a fish from the brook and gulped it, head, guts and all. When Barren wanted a baby, she moaned to the moon, danced in the rain, hugged leafy trees...
...luck to live in a woman's world, run by women for women. Grandmother screams, "Get up," kicks him on the side of the skull. Grandmother also cooks the food, plants the crops. Her daughters (Raven's sisters) bear offspring after exposure to the moon and the rain, seldom allow Raven to share their...
...cooks answered with a macumba, a Brazilian form of sorcery much practiced by the poor and ignorant. Black chickens were killed at street intersections in the dark of the moon, crossed chicken bones were mailed to the former President...
...crucial tenet with which he wrestles is the conventional doctrine of a static paradise in which the immortal souls of good Christians will spend eternity-"where, as in the palace of the Sleeping Beauty, we should find all life paralyzed, and the sun and moon preternaturally brilliant, both standing still...
...baboon by the light of the moon...