Word: rhymes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mass., and protested in rhyme against the imports of Swiss watches . . . TIME quoted the following rhyme...
Americans are having difficulty saying what U.S. troops are fighting over. Does Seoul, for example, rhyme with fool, soul, or Creole? "Soul" is closest: the eo is pronounced like the eo in George. All consonants in Korean place names are pronounced as in English except...
...precisely as an Eliot rhyme clicking into place at the end of a line, 4 o'clock each day brings tea with friends or business acquaintances in Eliot's rather shabby, faded office, where he is enthroned on a rickety wooden chair behind a massive desk. At 6:30, he leaves for home, dines with Hayward unless he has a pressing social engagement, and retires to his room for what he has called "the intolerable wrestle with words and meanings." Eliot admits that he will find numberless little things to attend to rather than buckle down to work...
Another verse fits in with current government propaganda for more factory production, and the worker in the rhyme finds that his pay stays the same under the Socialists' present frozen-wage policy, as in the old version...