Word: orkney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph. *In August 1951, by a scared mare that Morse was showing at a fair in Orkney Springs...
Born in the Orkney Islands, Muir was successively a shipbuilder, journalist, and a cultural representative for the British government in his early years...
...education came through osmosis," the poet remarks. Indeed, his writing still reflects the atmosphere of his childhood home on the Orkney Islands off Scotland, where "there was no great distinction between the ordinary and the fabulous." Leaving this peaceful habitat, Muir moved first to the Scottish mainland and then, in 1919, to London. Yet he still had not found either his art or his happiness. It was only after several months of psychotherapy, he recalls, that his "vague fears were quite gone...
After a skittish mare kicked Oregon's Republican Maverick Wayne Morse smack in the mouth at the Orkney Springs, Va. horse show, Washington reporters called at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Md. to see how the Senator was feeling, got their answer in a written note: "I have learned to roll with political kicks and punches, but I haven't learned how to absorb the kick of a horse...