Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bees, by & large, lead sad lives. Most young queens are killed by the reigning queen before they reach maturity. All the mature drones (males) are killed or starved by the workers (sterile females) before winter comes. Most drones die celibate; only one in thousands manages to mate with a virgin queen-and then pays with his life when she tears his genitals away...
...come to Rome than ever before-3,200,000, compared to the 582,000 in 1925 and the 350,000 in 1900. More canonizations and beatifications had taken place (eight of each) than in any other Holy Year. A new dogma of the church-the bodily Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven (TIME, Nov. 6) -had been pronounced. And in his final Holy Year address last week, the Pope made an announcement which Catholics had long waited to hear. The tomb of St. Peter, he said, had definitely been found under St. Peter's basilica...
...faithfull Virgin, yeelds himselfe...
...Ithaca's Ony Morning Newspaper High Above Cayuga's Pure Waters are in a state of moral frustration. We had hardly considered ourselves the essence of virgin innocence, but we did believe that we recognized the depths of sin when it smacked us in the face...
...wishy-washy wordster forever. A humdrum little tale by Henry James, The Death of the Lion, gives no indication of the labyrinthine richness he was able to manage when he felt like it. To the contemporary eye, only George Gissing's grim story of spinsterhood, The Foolish Virgin, seems fit to rank with the best of The Yellow Book painters and draftsmen (Beardsley, Sickert, Beerbohm, Sargent, Steer, Cotman, Guys...