Word: shod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madness I loathe-abhor from my soul, beyond all power to utter, hate in my bones all crack-brained geniuses and near-geniuses, all emotionalism, eccentric gesturing and posturing, extravagance! Boldness, yes, audacity, boldness is all, the one indispensable thing - but quiet, decorous, wedded to the proprieties, velvet-shod with irony. That is how I am, that is what I will...
...four corners, yelling at the Negro women, asking them "How would you like to have this [rope] around your neck?" Terrified Lillian Blake promised to lead them to her man's hiding place. Someone pointed out that the two women, both barefoot, could walk faster if they were shod. A committee crowded into a store to buy shoes...
...sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete sea wall (the last for no apparent reason except to prove that Eureka can take...