Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...professor works in a cluttered laboratory with a view of a garbage dump and its swarming rat and mouse population. The room is aflutter with canaries, which roost on the rungs of his chair and scatter when he moves. At night, while the professor works, the mice steal out of holes. Their feet patter like rain on the zinc-covered tables, and when one of them chews a seed stolen from the canaries, it makes, says the professor, "a very delicate noise." Cockroaches fade like ghosts in & out of cracks. The birds crane their necks and peer...
Through the local priest they have established an unofficial truce with the Nazis. When the German general plans a "raid" he tips off the priest, who in turn warns the partisans. The eleven members of the "23rd Corps" scatter to the woods until the "raid" is canceled and then return to" their village. The formalities of war are observed, but no blood is shed...
Varsity trackmen, who bowed to Army but defeated Princeton last week, will scatter the cinders again today in a triangular meet with Boston University and Northeastern at the Briggs Cage, while the Freshmen test the Phillips Academy track at Andover...
...campus Everett House at 53 Garden Street has been chosen as the Holiday residence. On December 25, even that dormitory will be deserted, as the ten concentrators doff eyeshades and scatter in all directions to split Christmas Day wish bones with friends...
...herbage is no longer green; The birds are to their haunts withdrawn, The leaves are scatter'd through the plain; The sun approaches Capricorn,* And man and creature looks forlorn...