Word: tilling
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...very eager that he should return for a second year of work in these longer forms, but did not know till later that, though equally eager, his means at the moment made this impossible...
...reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures, he was already wrapped up in his plans for sweeping visionary changes. He lost his post in the next ministerial shuffle. It was not till the Bizonal authorities called him to Frankfurt in 1947 that Erhard found his place, his platform and his apocalyptic powers...
...Philip insisted that Elizabeth join him in Malta and live like any other officer's wife. For the first time in her life, the future Queen really saw how the other half lived. She drove her own Daimler, went shopping and danced with her husband and his friends till the early morning. Readers of Britain's Sunday supplements nodded in approval as they noted the new slim dimensions of her figure and the sharper, smarter cut of her clothes...
...something longer, headier, woozier-such as the tale of a small Dylan accompanying a busload of revelers on a daylong ride from one pub to another, till "dusk came down warm and gentle on thirty wild, wet, pickled, splashing men without a care in the world at the end of the world in the West of Wales"-that Williams gathers more momentum and garners a real harvest of laughs...
...Laugharne ("this Godforsaken, Dylan-shared, vanishing dip in the hills") that Caitlin was possessed by the enormity of her loss, and wanted "to ferret down to that long locked cold box, and burst it apart . . . to mangle him with my strong bones, mingle, mutilate the two of us together, till the dead and the living would be desired...