Word: mortise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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. . . She touches one button at her throat, and rigor mortis Slithers into his pockets, making everything there--keys, pen and secret love--stand up. . . .
Macbeth is also endowed with a hypersensitive imagination. Colicos constantly reacts in little ways to the strange sounds that abound around Inverness Castle (this production has a highly active off-stage soundtrack). The dagger soliloquy comes after he dozes off on a bench; he starts to hallucinate in a half...
At U.S. universities this fall, in loco parentis is suffering from rigor mortis.
"We are known," Edward Brooke says of his fellow Republicans, "as people who substitute negativism-a grumbling, carping, protesting rejection of new ideas-for constructive policies." Moreover, Massachusetts' attorney general contends in his first book, The Challenge of Change (Little, Brown), this popular image of Republicanism should be of...
"Timor Mortis conturbat me," wrote the 15th century Scottish poet William Dunbar, and he continued: