Word: relicts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bamboo thickets-he is inspired to his masterpiece of zoological warfare: he coils a dead mamba on Helen's dressing table. He is betting on the mamba's being not only a fearsome and deadly reptile, but one with the habit of seeking its dead mate. The relict of the dead mamba arrives on schedule and bites Helen in the neck. She dies in a few seconds. Whereupon "I", moved to a mamba-like revenge, ambushes Henry in the jungle and shoots him as dead as Hemingway's Mrs. Francis Macomber shot Mr. Francis Macomber...
...when, without warning or explanation, all wives and daughters vanish from the face of the earth. A host of domestic chores such as he has never suspected fall into his philosophical lap; his shiny Miami home becomes a filthy, desolate, loveless stew, and Gaunt himself an unkempt, ragged relict in a life that has lost its meaning...
...Dealer David Niles, a relict of the Hopkins & Roosevelt days and a Truman adviser on handling racial and religious minorities, finds the Little Cabinet a more efficient apparatus than anything Roosevelt had: "While it's true that everybody wants to be the king's favorite, there is not the sniping such as was S.O.P. during the old Roosevelt days. You don't wake up and find the President has given your assignment to four other people. That makes for satisfaction and holds down the bitter rivalry that delighted Roosevelt...