Word: mule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Williams, who is considered an outstanding imagist poet, is the author of "Paterson, I & II," "Al Quo, Quiere," "In the American Grain," and "White Mule...
...snowy Vermion Mountains a few miles away, the Markos guerrillas heard of the festival. Through the passes mule trains began to move, some carrying ammunition and food, others empty and ready for loot. Supported by heavy machine guns, bazookas and mortars, 3,000 rebels attacked in foggy darkness. Before morning Naousa was in Communist hands...
Thousands of British children crowded around TV sets at week's end to hear Muffin the Mule make his New Year resolution. As curly-haired Mistress-of-Ceremonies Annette Mills appeared at her piano and ran through the opening bars of We Want Muffin, watching children squirmed with anticipation. Then Muffin, a black & white puppet with a straggly mane and a shabby velvet saddle, came clattering across the piano. As always, he blundered about, got his foot tangled in Annette's teacup, finally collapsed in a dither of excitement. As always, the TV audience shrieked with pleasure. Then...
Lamb & Pup. For two years, Muffin the Mule has been enchanting Britain's old & young. He is supported by a large cast, including a "terribly brainy" penguin who "gets somewhat irritable over other peopie's muddles," and a fluffy, conceited little lamb, privately described by Annette as "possibly a bit of a bitch, but so young it doesn't matter." Other supporting players are Oswald the Ostrich, Willie the Worm, Sally the Seal, Peter the Pup, Poppy the Parrot, and two "rather common" field mice named Morris and Doris...
...captain of the Walloping Windowblind. But not even his opponents doubted his essential integrity and simplicity and, in the calmer waters of 1948, that seemed enough. Said a young businessman: "He'll do what he thinks he ought to. Up home in North Carolina, we call him mule head...