Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Terrible Pool of Blood. The long sea voyage was a horror. Much of the time it stormed. Once Severn, who was himself ill (he had had typhus and a liver com plaint), came upon Keats during a hemorrhage and stumbled away to the stern of the ship, because the sight of so much suffering was unbearable. "He heard again that ghostly cough ; he saw again the poor white face, the terrible pool of blood." In Rome poet and painter had rooms in the Piazza, di Spagna, before a magnificent flight of steps that led upwards to the twin-towered Church...
...flurry of activity, in secret meetings and high conclaves, the Vatican sought to mediate. The Catholic Italia spoke of the Church's "disinterested pacification mission" (see p. 55). A Swiss report had the Badoglio Government ready to demilitarize Rome, declare it an open city. But neither plaint nor plea yet budged the Al lied High Command. At week's end Allied heavy bombers resumed the attack on the restive northern cities of Genoa, Milan and Turin...
...Trainee plaint: "If they'd just bring over one girl to three guys, it'd make a good dance...
Plantation Plaint...
...chaplain, who "tried to infuse them with courage to hold out bravely and show no sign of fear. While Father Ravoux was speaking to them old Tazoo broke out in a death wail in which one after another joined until the prison room was filled with a wild, unearthly plaint which was neither of despair nor grief but rather a paroxysm of savage passion, most impressive to witness and startling to hear. During the lulls in their death-song they would resume their pipes and with the exception of an occasional mutter or the rattling of their chains they...