Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...author "seemed to go dead." The reader can approve both the deletions and the additions, and note with some astonishment that while this 66-year-old poet has written of the body's defeats in a new short poem called Surgical Ward: Men, he has also added a sheaf of excellent love lyrics. Among the best is The Sharp Ridge, which balances passion and precision in a way that recalls Shakespeare's Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds...
...still not yet 8 when Old Railroader Russell stepped into the sixth-floor office of S.P. General Manager William Jaekle. Picking up a two-inch sheaf of papers that summarized the performance of his 22,394-mile line during the previous 24 hours, Russell skimmed rapidly through the data on passenger trains. (Russell's undisguised opinion of passenger trains is that of 19th century Rail King James J. Hill: "A passenger train, sir, is like the male teat: neither useful nor ornamental.") But his eyes brightened when he came to the figures on freight. Inked across one page...
...Geneva was Arthur Hobson Dean, 62, once John Foster Dulles' law partner. A cherubic-looking fellow. Dean earned his negotiator's credentials the hard way, representing the U.S. in the interminable Korean war truce talks with the Chinese Communists. In his briefcase, Dean carried a whole sheaf of new Western proposals, jointly tailored by the Kennedy Administration and the British government to eliminate the most serious Soviet objections to previous Western plans. "Our proposals," said British Negotiator David Ormsby-Gore, "should now make agreement possible before the end of June...
...second with the Cabinet and the second televised press conference,* plus a constant stream of phone calls and official visitors. Lights glowed in the President's oval office up to 8 or 9 p.m. as he worked over messages and reports to Congress. A staff member took a sheaf of papers to the White House living quarters at 11 p.m. and found the President impatiently waiting for the material. After a while, even Jack Kennedy seemed to sag momentarily. "Nixon should have won the election," said he with a weary smile...
Graves's short sheaf of stories tells the principal doings of the Olympians from the time Zeus seized power from Cronus (Saturn), son of Mother Earth, to the end of their reign. The author sets this date neatly at A.D. 363, the year in which the last Roman emperor to believe in the Olympians, Julian of Constantinople, was killed in battle. There are a lot of gods to discuss, and the result is that such notable heroes as Achilles and Ajax are ignored, and Odysseus, Paris and Helen are merely mentioned...