Word: snakeless
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...vision of the Hudson River school of painting ?the brooding serenity of turquoise skies, patriarchal clouds and trees, very still, doll-like people (white and red), infinite promise, potential self-deception and, above all, perfect containment?the individual and the land, man and God locked in a snakeless Eden. James Fenimore Cooper wrote a novel, Satanstoe, about such a place, an ideal America in which everyone ruled his own vast estate, his own civilization. Whether or not Reagan sees Rancho del Cielo or Pacific Palisades as Satanstoe, his dream of the New World is as old as Cooper...
They won't be parading in Southie today; Kevin White says there is too much snow. Too much, he says, for the city's legions of green-blooded patriots to pay their annual homage to the Old Country, the snakeless home of poets, revolutionaries, and--most important--Guinness stout...
...that the two mongooses, which resembled large nervous rats in their cages at the St. Louis Zoo, had been condemned to death by the U. S. Government. Reason: The Government forbids the importation of mongooses. Although they are valuable in India and Africa as snake destroyers, in the comparatively snakeless U. S. they would, if allowed to multiply, quickly menace poultry and game...
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