Word: raven
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...bridge-at midnight trEmbles; The cOuntry-dOctor rAmbles. BAnkers nieces--seek perfEction, ExpEcting All the gifts that wise-men bring. The wind hOwis--like a hAmmer, And the night blOws rAiny. My lOve, she's like some rAven, At my window with a brO--ken wing...
...little girl lost behind a battered big-bellied guitar. Her dusky face, framed by a cascade of raven hair that spills across her shoulders and down to her waist, seems frozen in mournful repose. In a throaty voice edged with anguish, she sings some of the unlikeliest lyrics ever heard in a nightclub: But where in the history books is the tale Of genocide basic to this country's birth, Of the preachers who lied, How the Bill of Rights failed...
Schmid went to bizarre lengths to build his image. He added 3 in. to his meager (5 ft. 3 in.) frame by stuffing rags and folded tin cans into his black leather boots. He dyed his hair raven black, wore pancake makeup, pale cream lipstick and mascara. As for the cash, which he got in a generous weekly dole from his mother, Schmid bragged to the boys that it came from smuggling cars into Mexico, to the girls that it came from women whom he had taught "100 ways to make love...
There is no way to know how many books or parts of books were inspired by the course. Miller himself published articles and several anthologies from its material, one of them, The Legal Mind in America, a classic example of the "creative" anthology; he also wrote one book, The Raven and the Whale, from these researches, but that was incidental to his main purpose. As a major work, he planned a continuation of his early books on the New England mind and Jonathan Edwards, to be called The Life of the Mind in America...
...since the night in 1960 when Thailand's Pone Kingpetch became flyweight champion of the world had there been such rejoicing in Bangkok. Radios blared, horns honked, and the queen pronounced herself "delighted" as bulletins flashed from Miami Beach that a Thai girl once nicknamed Pook (Fatty), raven-haired Apasra Hongsakula, 18, had been voted Miss Universe. Queen Sirikit, herself a famous beauty, had fussed with Pook before the contest, marching her up and down the palace halls to watch her posture. When it was all over, Pook (35-22-35) paraded into New York City for a peek...