Word: speared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army cutworm (Euxoa auxiliaris) is a sluggish, fat, green thing striped with a nauseous yellow. Army cutworms march on wheatfields in squadrons. Each soldier worm chooses his spear of wheat. Carefully he cuts it down, ignores the grain, devours the root, moves on to the next spear. An army of worms cuts a clean swath across any field it enters, then cuts another swath. A listener can hear the concerted champing of their mandibles...
...even in dream, This be our solace: that it was not said When we were young and warm and in our prime, Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead, Sleeping away the unreturning time. O Sweet, O heavy-lidded, O my love, When morning strikes her spear upon the land, And we must rise and arm us and reprove The insolent daylight with a steady hand, Be not discountenanced if the knowing know We rose from rapture but an hour...
...list of unsung heroes, such as the man who first ate a spear of asparagus, the Vagabond would like to add the name of that worthy who yesterday braving the derisive glances of passers-by and all unmindful of the blustering west wind, pushed a lawn-mower resolutely across the sodden greensward of Dunster House. A week of balmy weather, a brace of robins, a succession of hour exams, these are the signs which are supposed to usher in the springtime season, but the Vagabond has too often been misled by such fickle prophets in the past. With a rather...
...JOHN A. SPEAR East Orange...
...head-hunt. As soon as a lucky group is chosen, the rest of the tribe dances, prays to hundreds of gods to send them many heads. When the warriors arrive in enemy country they construct a small hut for ambush. The first victim to appear has a spear thrown at him. Ifugao etiquet demands that the one who throws the fatal spear gets the head. Other warriors are supposed to stand by and watch while the killer dances over the fallen body, slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually...