Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boozing Brutes." The son of a country lawyer, Masefield wrote roistering early verses peppered with adventures that he had packed into his teens. He went to sea as a cook, rose to the rank of master mariner, and sailed around Cape Horn. He went to the U.S., where he crossed the continent as a hobo, worked in a Greenwich Village saloon and, while employed in a Yonkers, N.Y., carpet factory, finally realized that his metier was poetry. Thus the rough, unschooled youth of 19 set out to fashion his poems not for "the portly presence of potentates goodly in girth...
...descended into Hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into Heaven...
...Taiwan's trade balance, which once ran a $100 million annual deficit in spite of U.S. aid (discontinued in 1965), is now only $34 million in deficit on a much larger base ($569 million in exports and $603 million in imports). Meanwhile, foreign exchange reserves last year rose another 10% to $337 million. >Per-capita income, rising 4½% each year, has nearly doubled to $200. With prices stabilized the ordinary Taiwanese has begun to buy rice cookers and radios, and total savings last year amounted to $200 million, or more than twice as much as Taiwanese tucked away...
...upturn-and Chapin, dining in a Chicago restaurant, cheerily ordered strolling musicians to play Just in Time. The American's $1,839 base price - well under that of any other U.S. compact and only $200 more than the Volkswagen-has indeed helped tune up sales, which in April rose 8% over the same month last year, to 7,371 cars. Nevertheless, as of last week, most of the sounds coming out of A.M.C.'s brick headquarters on Detroit's Plymouth Road suggested a prelude to Good Night, Ladies...
...almost gets over this block after a weekend with a jaded Jamaican named Auro, who has "the palest Negro skin" she has ever seen. When she arrives back home after dark, the poor dopey male, Tom, is waiting at the gate to punish his faithless Patsy. "He rose as she went through the gate and acted so deftly that the scream she let out got lost in her throat as a wail. She died with her back to him and as she fell, he helped her down." Then he saw that it was poor Willa...