Word: plaintes
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...play, or a novel or a poem or a painting, is called whatever it's called. There's no mystery in this connection about "Over Twenty-One." It's about a 39-year old newspaper editor in a Florida Army training camp, and a recurring theme, or plaint, is built around the fiotsam that a man "can't absorb anything after he's passed...
...natural lives to even recall them. We've learned a lot and we've unlearned a lot. Many of us have gotten a little older, in fact, name of us even shave now. We'll never forget these months spent here at Harvard. But isn't that the plaint of all when the end of any period of memorable happenings comes to a close...
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...