Word: paroxysm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beech Tree, a mannish countrywoman who cares for nothing but the chase is suddenly confronted with the fresh carcass of a vixen. She imagines that the precious creature-the might-have-been mother of countless foxes-has been wantonly shot by her young nephew, and she collapses in a paroxysm of rage and grief...