Word: sere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaudy billboards; they ran past barns painted with baking powder ads and signposts cluttered with the weathered, cardboard portraits of political candidates. In the South the cotton was waisthigh. Beneath the northern border the wheatlands were bright with yellow stubble. The Western ranges with their white-faced cattle were sere again with the late summer heat. Sidetracked freight cars still bore the familiar slogans on their red sides: The Route of Phoebe Snow, The Katy, The Southern Serves the South. Leaves were turning yellow in the high valleys of the Rocky Mountains. In the Southwest, mirages still sprang up along...
From London last week came news of a French attempt to solve this sere national problem. The report (which the French Ministry of Health understandably denied) : the French Government is buying ?25,000,000 worth of that restorer of physical and sexual vigor, testosterone, the male hormone (TIME, May 28). Treatment, by injection, will be voluntary, secret and free to any man under Government medical care or returning from captivity...
...week's end Hepburn held out a somewhat sere olive branch to his old enemy Prime Minister King: "My argument is not with Mr. King. . . . The time has come to oppose a new and dangerous form of Toryism in Ontario." Whether or not Mr. King accepted this peace offering, he undoubtedly would welcome any ally against enemy Drew. No one doubted that Hepburn was ready to step back as provincial Liberal leader-if he were asked. But some wondered whether he might not also be daydreaming. Mitch knows that Prime Minister King is 70 and that someone, some...
...Pennsylvania has already lost six players, but one came back. As a civilian, Bob Odell was the standout back in the sere Ivy League. Last week he was inducted into V12, and immediately assigned -to Pennsylvania. Two days later Navyman Odell streaked 40 yards for a touchdown that helped tie favored but mud-bogged Army...
Theme & Variations. Upon this theme, in poetry rich in paradox and reward, in mystery, in symbol, in despair and, ultimately, in hope. Eliot develops his great variations. The sere, cryptic titles of the four quartets are the names of places intimately associated with his experience. Burnt Norton was a Gloucestershire man or near which he lived for a while. East Coker is a Somerset village which was the home of his ancestors. The Dry Salvages (accented like assuages) is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Mass. Little Gidding was a lyth-Century religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar. Each...