Word: pots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jefferson City, Mo., a woman admonished Truman in crisp, motherly tones: "Put your hat on. We don't want you to catch cold." But the reception Harry Truman was eagerly looking forward to was the one at Independence. Said he: "I guess they'll put the big pot inside the little pot and break both of them...
Despite its numerous personnel and extensive facilities, Hygiene still has big problems. Like a growing boy bursting through the seat of too-tight trousers, Hygiene must get some new clothes to function adequately. Stillman Infirmary is ancient, outmoded and inconvenient. The Hygiene building itself is bulging with a pot-pourri of clinics, laboratories, and offices that crowd in on each other with abandon...
Some chance of laying to the pot a claim...
...light flashing ahead. Daylight revealed a brown fishing beach between two weathered, grey cliffs. Bombard had reached Stroud's Bay in the British West Indian island of Barbados. Within a few hours, he sat down to a hearty landsman's meal of grapefruit, bacon & eggs, bread, a pot of jam, coffee...
Aside from MacLeish's historical interest, the countryside lures his attention. Equating fall planting, rivers blood-red from, leaves, and spring thaw with human birth in The Pot of Earth (1925), he creates a simple, enthralling experience. Eleven is a magnificent poem about an unassuming incident--a boy going to rest in a barn before lunch--which takes on many subtle meanings. The expression is low-power and the structure is well suited to the tone. As a matter of fact, MacLeish rarely forces words to rhyme just for the sake of rhyme. Even while he experiments with different forms...