Word: spearing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then nothing and something happen. Laura and Jim remain at loggerheads, while a swarm of supporting players takes over the stage. Laura's beloved brother, killed in Korea, returns to haunt her. Bearing a blunted spear is her husband Harry, a disappointed lawyer-politician now resigned to tinkering with the Massachusetts Democratic Party machine. In come Jim's parents, a bewildered, gin-swilling mother and a gambling father off on a lifetime losing streak. The cast swells to include an Italian immigrant, a Jewish real estate tycoon and assorted Cogan relatives. Without warning, what might have been just...
...view things will always be different because I grew up on a reservation," she says. "There are things behind me, in my childhood. For instance, I've gone hunting and spear-fishing with my father, and I've held partridges for him--"She looks up and smiles. "How many Radcliffe women can say they've held a partridge...
...protect themselves from robbers. In Moscow, there is a long waiting list to subscribe to a $3-a-month electronic anti-burglar system that links apartments to local militia stations. Soviet papers report citizens' electrifying their doors or installing a harpoon-like device that is supposed to spear an intruder who opens the door...
...portent, the fallen oak may not be in the same league as the events that the Historian Livy claimed presaged disaster in ancient Rome: swamps turned the color of blood, chalk rained from the skies, a spear on a statue moved of its own accord, an ox talked and a child in the womb cried "Hurrah!" Still, several Michigan newspapers carried a photo of the splintered tree with the caption "Warning from Above...
...magic glow of age-old ritual fires. In the center stand the king, the queens, the elders and the sub-chieftans--all the ranking leaders of the tribe--humbled and ridiculed by the insults of the people. A young prince steps forward, his head held high, his shield and spear in hand: "Follow me," he beckons to the people, "this evil king betrays his sacred trust." More princes and military captains mimic his example, defiling the name of the monarch and calling the people to rebellion. Then, remarkably, these same slanderers of the king exhort him to lead them...