Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stout Trout. In Lewiston, Idaho, 15-year-old John Olson got a very dirty look from a steelhead trout while wading in the river, explained to the game warden that the only thing he could do was stone the 13-lb., 36-in. fish to death in self-defense...
...stone Cambridge's quarantining To you may have a hidden meaning; Pick out the place, then seek a nook, And browse until you find a book That deals with fairies, not the kind Occurring to the vulgar mind...
...plane kept going. He tried desperately to groundloop to the left. Instead, it would not turn. The plane plunged straight on, tires screeching, tore down 100 feet of fence at the end of the field, lifted a little and skimmed the earth like a skipped stone...
Highlighting the work of poets Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, John Hawkes, Jr., Ruth Stone, and Seymour Lawrence, are Lauriat Lane's Garrison Prize Poems. In three pieces; "Love Song After Tea," "Pastoral," and "Demobilized," Lane writes with a frugality that effectively achieves simplicity. Only in "Au Clair De Lune," the fourth of his five included poems, does Lane run into trouble with a high-flown cadenza (". . . the moon hangs pendulous/Upon the watch-chain of some night-vested god . . .") that weakens the impression of sincerity his first three works convey...
...Stone experimented for more than six years. Shortly after Author moved to Manhattan's WHN in 1943, Stone went into the Navy, but he nursed his baby along by remote control...