... Moor his entire life, and has a uniquely intimate relationship with the land. He is described as looking like the god Pan (the god of ): he has rosy cheeks, rough curly hair, and blue eyes precisely the same color as the sky over the moor; he even carries a set of pan-pipes. Like ... fill, suddenly, with great surprise or amazement. Tidy: (page 80) neat and orderly in appearance, arrangement, manner of proceeding, or the like. Scullery: (page 81) a room adjoining a kitchen, or a part of a pantry, where dishes and utensils are cleaned and stored, or preliminary food preparation is done. F...

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... the publication in 1859 of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species which put the existence of God into radical question. Across the whole population, and in the face of rapid economic and social changes, radical doubts about the stability of the existing order were expressed. By the end of the nineteenth century the ... poems, especially those he wrote following the death of his wife in 1912; some are written in a mordantly comic light verse. Others lament the brevity and fragility of human life; some are bleak and darkly pessimistic. The perspective constantly shifts from ordinary sim...

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... the money. His wife did not wear mink, he pointed out, but only "a respectable Republican cloth coat." The only gift that he had kept for himself was a cocker spaniel named Checkers. The "Checkers speech" brought an overwhelmingly favorable response from Republicans across the nation. Eisenhower kept him on the ticket, and the ... the USSR in 1959 he opened the American National Exhibition. There, in a model kitchen, he engaged in a debate with Nikita Khrushchev. This widely publicized "kitchen debate" enhanced Nixon's political stature. His yeoman service to the party made Nixon the logi...

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