Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...section man in his course on the Elizabethan drama, before leaving Cambridge to write the play. And Levin still remembers the day Robert Lowell, then a freshman in the College, came to him for advice as to whether or not he should transfer to Kenyon and John Crowe Ransom (which he eventually did). "The secret of advice," said Levin in commenting on Lowell's subsequent success, is simply to find out what a person really wants to do, and then to encourage him to go ahead...
Billy arrived on Poppy Day, traditional for its student high jinks to raise money for disabled veterans, and it was reliably rumored that five separate groups of undergraduates planned to kidnap and hold him for ransom. But the brisk vigilance of students and plainclothesmen kept him safe for CICCU...
...with precipitous halts on one toe tip, her torso parallel to the ground, her other leg arrow-straight behind her. Three times she made a vicious break for freedom, three times she had her wild wings pinned by the hunter. At last, exhausted, she sagged in defeat, and as ransom, presented her captor with a gold feather. He set her free...
Fairweather's Friends. The anti-Tau-rum faction mobilizes under its natural leader, Washington's leading witch-hunter, Senator Jason Ransom. When an over-Taurumed African violet is left by accident in Ransom's car. and turns into a "huge writhing mass," the Senator, envisaging a "Red assassin," empties his revolver into the back-seat brush. Soon he is alerting his colleagues, "I can hardly believe the unbelievable extent of this conspiracy," and grabbing scare headlines, e.g., "RANSOM SAYS REDS PLAN ATTACK ON U.S. CURRENCY...
...concretized"), and spurts of sly wit ("Since it was only 8 a.m., it was too early to have a drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom's "Neanderthal bloc," and Fort Knox seems well on its way to becoming the biggest compost heap in the world...