Word: teeming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sought the level of Percy Bysshe Shelley, would have been as out of place on Parnassus as Shelley in a Klondike saloon. The rhymes that made Service a millionaire w'ooed none of the nine Muses. They reek of male shenanigans and sweat, roar like a Yukon avalanche, teem with rude and lusty characters: Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins. Muck-Luck Mag, Blasphemous Bill Mackie. Dangerous Dan McGrew. "Rhyming has my ruin been," Robert Service once wrote, falling unconsciously into the balladeer's inversion. "With less deftness I might have produced real poetry...
Alleviating the pain of prowling through 23 pages of such high prose are little illustrations by a mysterious MCR, which draw the hearts of young males toward the lovely women whom she ostensibly pictures. The pages teem with agonized girls burning button-down shirts they are trying to iron; with fearful owls who have VC emblazoned on their chests; with dungareed, odd-shaped beauties whanging guitars; and with mink-coated so-phisticates dreaming of palm trees and sun (apparently there is little of the latter in "the Pough...
...receipts more than trebled in a decade, to $419 million in 1952). Contributions to political and civic organizations will climb 45.8%. Buying of jewelry and watches will be up 37.2%, foreign travel 53.7%, medical insurance 60.6%, private schooling 101.4%, and airline travel 187.4%. The nation's highways will teem with 59 million cars, 47% more than in 1950. Looking farther ahead, in 1975 the U.S. will be generating 1,400 billion kw-h of electric power, 3½ times 1950's output. Also in that year, it will use 200 billion gallons of fresh water every...
...Lemmon a date with something "basic" (Kim Novak), who gives him that little-girl look, confides that she almost went to college and majored in music - "I was a drum majorette." Meanwhile, Judy has an experience with a charm boy (Donald Curtis) who asks her up to his "an teem" apartment. Jack enters a painting class, sprouts a moustache and buys a lima bean-shaped sports-car. So it goes, and very merrily indeed, until separate existence is just too much to wrestle with, and Judy and Jack get a firm new wedlock on each other...
King was not quite accurate. The hills and valleys flanking Quebec's swift Gatineau River teem with habitations and inhabitants: logging camps and old farm villages, hunting lodges of U.S. and Canadian sportsmen, mountaineers living in ancestral log cabins, remnants of the Algonquin and Tètes de Boule Indian tribes, moose, black bears and-to hear the natives tell it-ghosts, werewolves and a ubiquitous, blood-guzzling witch, the Windigo...