Word: snores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing but its undercarriage. Its three occupants clambered down cliffs to the crocodile-infested river, while clouds of mosquitoes whined about them. As night fell, they built a fire to keep curious elephants at bay. One elephant, Hemingway said later, "was silhouetted twelve paces away, listening to my wife snore." When he woke her, she said, " 'I never snore. You've got a fixation about "it.' I said, 'So has the elephant...
When Casimir caught her in the act of swooning on a young man's shoulder, his spontaneous comment was as disillusioning as a snore. "Nobody," he said, "must know . . . That must be our chief concern...
...poetry ranges from good t disappointing. In "Jonathan Victus," Peter MacVeagh chose his theme with care, nurtured it through four fine stanzas, and then uprooted it poetically with a jarring last verse. Similarly, Benjamin La Farge, in his "letter To a Friend," includes phrases like "where old men snore" which may satisfy a demanding rhyme scheme but which destroy the tone of the poem...
...most people, says Poet Peter Viereck, modern poetry is a hopelessly obscure "snore and an allusion." Viereck (rhymes with lyric) is out to change that; he writes for the "intelligent general reader who has been scared away from poetry but who might return if addressed straightforwardly...