Word: ox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find that they also deal with ideas current in astrology-a house, a hand, an eye, a fish, a serpent . . . while, strangely enough, the last of all in the Hebrew is Taw, a 'mark,' a 'sacred symbol,' the Aramaic Tor, 'oryx' or 'ox,' the Arabic Thaw, the Greek Tauros, the Latin Taurus, the Germanic Thor, 'the Thunderer.' Two bulls? The first and last letter of the alphabet a bull? One is reminded of Alam and Alad, the two bulls of the Sumerians, one on the right hand- and the other...
...astronomical sign for the constellation Taurus is Ψ which resembles the later Greek letter Ψ. The Chinese Luna zodiac sign for the same constellation was six stars Ψ, in the shape of a bull's head, while the sign of the Chinese Luna zodiac was Niu, the "ox" which in primitive form, resembled the head of an ox...
...bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels of Gruyere and slabs of Cantal cheeses, "the mighty pillars of this Temple of Foresight." Rationing is declared, and Julie beholds a vision come true, all the neighbors "down on their knees...
...Ansiau, knight and onetime Crusader, sets out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, becomes blind on the way, is captured in the Holy Land by the infidel and lashed to a mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
...across the street, where Little Hall now stands. Like most of their neighbors, they were in the cattle business. Behind the three houses in Cow Yard Row stretched long narrow lots, fenced in separately and ending in a line of Common Pales which divided the private holdings from the Ox Pasture. The cattle were driven into these yards at night, so that the lookout on Watch House Hill, where the kiosk now stands, could keep his eye on them...