Word: shepherded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rendezvous in a Cave. Late one afternoon in May, the seven members of the family walked separately and casually out of their village. Shortly after dark they met in a secluded cave. There they also met Andreas Ghioris, a shepherd who for $160 and a small barrel of olive oil had agreed to lead them across the mountains to Greece...
Patterson's murder was the climax of a long tradition of violence that has touched both hoodlums and the respectable families on upper-class Summerville Road. Hoyt Shepherd, onetime casino owner and political boss, has been attacked and wounded, homes have been bombed, Lawyer Patterson's office was once set afire, and members of the Russell Betterment Association have been beaten on the street...
...hand of a fallen sister and begging her to reform. He even took one young prostitute to live with him and "encouraged her to weep over her vile life." He "read books to her every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found his lamb folded into bed with "a man with a large mustache." Beside the bed sat a second gent, waiting his turn. Poor Hecht fled "this hellish sight"-but not without recalling appropriate words of Swinburne: 0 lips full of lust and of laughter, Curled...
...human being -love, understanding or comfort"). A Child of the Century drives home the lesson that words and phrases are best kept short and plain-a fact Hecht might have learned from the story he tells about Author Michael (The Green Hat} Arlen, who "affected a shepherd's crook for evening wear." Once at dinner a lady novelist told him: "You look almost like a woman." Arlen studied her for a moment and answered simply...
...court's verdict and General Shepherd's comment, the Marines became the first of the services to deal with the problems raised by Red torture...