Word: nought
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...felawships of DUNSTERRE-on-the-FLOOD A worthy clerke fulsome of corage stood, Who seyth to a corpus of his frendes That they must do a studie to these endes And see if they con mak discoverie Of clerkes in hir wycked revelrie, To fynde if they do nought but halve the hours Twille cut off lechoury in its firsts floure...
...plays and movies, Richardson* most closely identifies with the Long Distance Runner. A druggist's son, he was sent to "a terrible, horrible off-white sort of public school" which was evacuated to the Lake District during the war. There discipline slipped away to nought, and Richardson spent much of his time wandering the countryside alone, much like the Borstal boy in the film taking his long training runs...
...shotgun-brandishing Texas farmer who, when federal courts ruled against her in a 1958 title fight for ownership of the farm, seceded her 705-acre spread from the Union and applied to the United Nations for membership; of cancer; in Glendale, Calif. Though all her efforts came to nought, Irene's finest hour was sending her nubile, 19-year-old daughter Angeline to the White House in 1958 to seek justice, with a rusty, 9-ft. chain padlocked around her neck. The key was mailed to President Eisenhower, who ordered secret servicemen to return it to Angeline. Angeline unlocked...