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...read a poem called "A Face," from a slip of paper she had, and followed that with one called "Voracities and Verities Sometimes Are Interacting." Then she opened a leather bound book and read "The Wood Weasel" ("I'm sorry it isn't an owl") and then her wartime poem "In Distrust of Merits" "And I don't think any better of it now than when I wrote it." Then she sat down...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Morris Gray Readings: Marianne Moore | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

...magnificent weasel. The Northern bloc, which believed that Congress' power to legislate "human rights" is limitless, could accept it-if it wanted to. So could Southern politicians who firmly believe that certain Negro rights are matters which the Constitution leaves to the states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Line Squall | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...dreamed up the "weasel," the tracked, amphibious jeep that wallowed through mud from Italy to the Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Everybody's Conscience | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Weasel will play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

Right now the Laffmovie is showing among other delicacies, a cartoon about a sneezing weasel and a Buster Keaton classic, vintage 1934. The former does, however, contain some modern verse. There are two lines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/13/1948 | See Source »

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