Word: maidening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was St. John of Burke, the eldest and wisest of all the knights. But St. John was downcast this day, and his heart was not with him. It had been claimed by another, a fair damsel now captured by the Green Meanies. And St. John had sought this maiden, fighting many a battle and slaying many a knight while chasing her. But he had been beaten in his last fight. knocked from his horse by The Knight of Delta Pi Epsilon. And St. John was disgraced, for he had hurt his knee and lost his horse...
...British army's most beleaguered Irish outpost, Crossmaglen, a heavily fortified and often attacked base in an area notorious for I.R.A. activity. Her speedy show of the flag in Ulster met with a sturdy rebuff from the I.R.A. Said a statement from the Provos: "The Iron Maiden's declaration of war is nothing but the bankrupt rattling of an empty...
...business for 29 years, is also optimistic. Said he: "I'd like to see more of the same kind of boats. Maybe then the Arabs would drown in their own oil." Not likely. But one thing is certain: when Ned Ackerman takes the Leavitt on her maiden voyage, whether they sail north or south, skipper and ship will be moving in the right direction.-Hays Gorey
...Princeton is a gauntlet of murderous anti-Semites. Looking at Kafka began as a critical essay and gracefully unfurled into a fantasy in which Kafka did not die in 1924 but emigrated to New Jersey where he became Roth's Hebrew school teacher and troubled suitor of his maiden aunt...
Things happen, of course, but only up to a point. The professor, perhaps inevitably, finds himself outgrown by the Iowa maiden, who does not share his reticence about reaching out for life. The Washington careerist, "bright but not too bright" and full of muddled optimism, glimpses the fact that the convergence theory of history, as applied to the evolution of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., is bad news because it is turning the world into a wall-to-wall bureaucracy. "We are not completing anything," the Soviet says. "And we are not being used up in order for anything...