Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three sessions together, Johnson and Sarit got down to brass tacks. At one point, the Vice President bemused the Premier by making a solid point with some corn-pone rhetoric: "My daddy taught me back in Texas what to do when you see a snake. We take a hoe off the wall and get him: Now, there are lots of snakes around here. We have our hands on the hoe handle. Are you going to grab the handle with us so we can get those snakes together...
...Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C. J. P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric who displays all the instincts of the aristocrat and no trace of the gentleman...
Just before the competition began, one of the sponsors emerged from a conference with the jittery girls, and said, "It's like a snake pit in there. One of them's reciting poetry, and one's singing to herself." Earlier, he had urged the judges to get the girls' home, school, and even summer addresses ("in case we need them for something during the summer...
...Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C.J.P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric whose life displays all the imperious instincts of the aristocrat without an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman...
...reasonable facility in expression. 325 offers writing that varies tremendously in tone, but is consistent in its lack of facility. The Faculty profiles are soapily reverent and incredibly uninformative. Some articles are presented in a flat, uninteresting style, while others reach for and miss flowery heights ("The snake enters and is metamorphosed: joint by joint it dissolves, filling the barn-mixer-exam-hall-box with paper-clips, each looking for its own special assortment of cards and papers to belong to. . . ."). The writing in 325 is generally bad, and, what is worse, terribly dull in its overall effect...