Word: plumeted
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...WITH the demise of the Herald-Traveler, Boston lost one of its three remaining daily newspapers, adding to a sad nationwide trend which has seen the number of papers in New York, for example, plumet from as many as ten to a bare minimum of two, with just one daily morning newspaper--The New York Times...
...Marianne Moore is offering her small but fervent public a collected view of her poetic garden. Nothing quite like it has ever been seen before. Through its pleasant paths wander such birds and beasts as the jerboa, the Malay dragon, the pangolin and the plumet basilisk. In one poem she presents "the frilled lizard, the kind with no legs, and the three-horned chameleon . . . that take to flight if you do not." But while the surface of these delicate verses concerns animals, a second look shows that they are about human beings, too-and about such virtues as orderliness, courage...
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