Word: vexing
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...seldom vex a lover's ears With business or with jealous fears. I give him freely all delights With pleasant days and easy nights...
India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who hesitates to do anything that would vex Red China, has already communicated his misgivings about the Jan. 23 release to able Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya, who is responsible for the Indian troops guarding the prisoners. Nehru thinks that the prisoners should be held at least 30 days beyond the release date set in the armistice agreement. But last week U.S. observers on the scene believed that Thimayya had convinced his boss in New Delhi of another proposition: India cannot try to hold the prisoners beyond the deadline without risking a mass breakout...
There was a young lady from Vex...
With these lines, a Belgian poetess registered her protest against Fellow Poetess Pierette Micheloud, of Vex, Switzerland, who insisted on puffing away at a long-stemmed, elegant pipe. The limerick was by far the sharpest contribution heard at the First International Poetry Biennial, which assembled 200 poets from 30 countries at Knokke le Zoute, Belgian seaside resort, to spend a happy four days talking shop and eying each other's iambs...
...Scott Fitzgerald could have done wonders with these rootless idlers. So could the Hemingway of The Sun Also Rises. But Barnaby just falls in & out of love a couple of times and eventually concludes that "things happen as they happen, and it is a waste of time to vex ourselves with what they are and why they come...