Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gerald Phizackerley, an Anglican archdeacon, stood last week near a rocky outcrop, surrounded by the heathclad hills and moors of the English Midlands, reciting a nursery rhyme...
...laughter from the congregation of 600 gathered in the field outside the village of Eyam. Some worshipers seemed close to tears, for this was a service to commemorate a rare act of heroism at the time of the Great Plague that struck England more than 300 years ago. The rhyme's four bitter lines refer to the rosy mark on the chest of plague victims, the nosegays that people carried thinking to prevent infection, convulsive sneezing-and then death...
...your article about the Church of England's new divorce policy [July 20], you mentioned the marital career of Henry VIII and footnoted the fates of his six wives. To keep their stories straight, we Americans might try remembering a simple rhyme taught to British schoolchildren...
...John Travolta's arrival. Travolta is about to give a press conference, and his fans gather below on Holyoke St. Lights flash on, cameras start to roll, but before Travolta can be introduced, the chant floats in from outside: "We want John! We want John!" It doesn't even rhyme...
...really improved over just the last three games. Last night against St. Anselm's they played the best they have all year. The coaching has been improving, and the team along with it. However, I still feel there is too much substituting going on. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to it, and it only destroys the confidence of the players knowing they'll be taken out any minute. You never see that in a men's game...