Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HEATHER AND GLEN (Tradition). Folk singers in Aberdeenshire and the Hebrides tell their tales, most often laments-for James MacPherson, dangling from the gallows when his pardon arrives; for William Chisholm. the young husband who died for Prince Charlie in 1746. There are also work songs. Gentle Lady is sung...
Where the grown-up of the 1900's lived enthralled by Horatio Alger's tales of the success brought about by honest virtue, today's adults savor passages like this one, from a recent popular novel: "%|#%/--$**Z"
All week long, red-eyed citizens wandered through their streets, looking for friends or loved ones, comparing experiences, recounting tales of tragedy and heroism. Soldiers with bayonets patrolled streets or baby-sat with begrimed children who had to be wheedled out of tears with jokes and C rations. Families fortunate...
Pious Gloss. Moslem and Hindu fugitives all tell strikingly similar tales of persecution. Alike, they say that border police systematically relieve them of whatever money and jewels they have left. On both sides, fugitives protest that the only safe way across the frontier is by greasing the palms of unscrupulous...
The religious violence that has ripped India and Pakistan for months was touched off by a hair trigger. When a brownish bristle from the head of the Prophet Mohammed was stolen from a mosque in Kashmir last December, long dormant hatreds erupted between the Hindus and Moslems. Though the relic...