1. and others he bought later;   by 1760 he paid tithes on 49 slaves--though he
2. limerick is superb", 2 May).  By 1898 the origin of the word was already shrouded in
3. center.. is expected to become a reality by 1998, making travel into, out of and around Champaign-
4. Christian Church there. So, by St. Patrick's time .. Christianity had been introduced to Ireland three and a half centuries earlier and many of the Irish were already Christians.
5. RK: Annie, it's incredible!  By the early '70's the guy decides people have become
6. forgave him for getting old. By the time he was as old as I am now, he was ancient.
7. get his son to make it for him. By the time I was 10, playing baseball got to be like
8. form Legman states that by the time of the English Revolution and Restoration the limerick had become a satirical
9. Continental Congress. He was by this time known as a radical rather than a moderate,
10. verse first it is hard to say". By this time, then, "limerick" could be used to refer to

1. District has been planning for 10 years, is expected to become a reality by
2. effort spanning the nation for 15 years. ``We worked hard to put together a
3. Rachel that I'm doing laundry for a couple of hours." And he said, "Laundry? Is that
4. the universe opens itself up for a few seconds to show you what's possible." TM: Oh
5. to Europe and studied there for a few years, however no one knows where for
6. were required to study for a lengthy twenty years to master the complete
7. just need you to come with me for a little while, and, what are you doing? TM: I'm
8. to his burrow and settles down for a long winter's nap. The woodchuck is a true
9. his army in fairly good order. For a time he hoped to hold the Schuylkill Fords, but the
10. to it be elected to Congress. For a time he sincerely believed that, the new
11. that for years. My dad did that for a while, but that was in the 20's. TM: What
12. and then I just walked around for a while. Rachel: You walked around all night in the
13. build another fort on the Ohio for a year and to sign a paper acknowledging
14. He played in the minors for a year or two, but nothing ever came of it. Moved
15. After following Legman's path for about five hundred years I think it is safe to assume
16. founded by Patrick, existed for about 700 years free and unshackled and
17. hurry to his underground home for another six weeks of winter. The Tradition builds:
18. the early Christians in Europe. For centuries it was the custom to have the clergy
19. Patrick as well as of Ireland for centuries. The shamrock is also found combined
20. others --- have been used for decades to resist creation of any new holiday.
21. if I'd only gotten to be a doctor for five minutes, now that would have been a tragedy.
22. no regrets. RK: 50 years ago for five minutes you came this close. I mean, it would
23. chosen its president. For four months he presided over the Constitutional
24. to me. I mean, I talked for hours! It is amazing to have someone give you such
25. great Shoeless Joe Jackson, for life. KK: What's "suspend"? RK: It means they
26. who had been Phil's handler for many years. During his years as President of the
27. station, had worked with Light for many years in promoting the groundhog on radio
28. of Culpeper county, and for more than two years he was kept almost constantly
29. the less. Dr. Frank Lorenzo For nearly 50 years, the Groundhog Club was headed
30. to a suspension from command for one year. The arrival of the French fleet under
31. itchy legs that have been dust for over 50 years. That was me. I'd wake up at night
32. exposed himself on horseback for several hours to cold and snow and, returning home
33. of Virginia planters. For six days a week he rose early and worked hard; on
34. While in slavery he worked for six years as a shepherd. One day, in his solitude,
35. When Shoeless Joe arrives for the first time, Costner's face
36. (p. 30). A strange choice as, for the first time, he is finally able to cite a song in
37. when he hears the voice for the first time: "If you build it, he will come." He
38. grow. When the voice speaks for the first time, the farmer is baffled, and so was I:
39. Vernon, he devoted himself for the last two and a half years of his life to his
40. it scares him into hiding for the next six weeks. Then winter continues until he
41. the latest scientific advances. For the next 20 years the main background of
42. College District, which for the past 11 years has conducted a widely attended
43. team. They haven't done that for years. My dad did that for a while, but that was in

1. a civil rights leader. Although, from an early age, King resented religious emotionalism
2. He attended school irregularly from his seventh to his 15th year, first with the local
3. command covered the period from July 1775 to the British evacuation of Boston in
4. that it had a limited circulation from the Middle Ages to the early Nineteenth century,
5. my God! RK: What? TM: You're from the '60's! RK: Well, yeah, actually. TM: Out! RK:
6. he thus had a real family. From the time of his marriage Washington added to the
7. limerick had been "indecent" from the very beginning. To begin with, he has to admit

1. came of it. Moved to Brooklyn in '35, married Mom in '38, and was already an old man
2. Brooklyn in '35, married Mom in '38, and was already an old man working at the Naval
3. Joe! RK: He s dead. Died in '51. He s dead. AK: He's the one they suspended,
4. I rooted for Brooklyn. But in '58 the Dodgers moved away, so we had to find other
5. EC: Well, let's see. I died in '70. That means I haven't had a cigarette in, what,
6. TM: I haven't published a word in 17 years, and still I have to endure lunatics like you.
7. their chariots into Briton in 43 A.D. Because of the Celts' faith and tenacity to
8. called me 'Moonlight' Graham in 50 years. RK: Well, I've come a very long way to
9. of Henry 11 and the Pope in 1172. A Man with a Mission WHO WAS SAINT
10. of Augustine, migrated in 1657 to Virginia. The ancestral home at Sulgrave,
11. Valley, came to America in 1746 to live with his cousin George William at
12. went to Barbados in 1751 for his health, taking George along. From this
13. on the westward movement. In 1752 Lord Fairfax determined to take up his final
14. Neck and Eastern Shore. Then in 1753 Dinwiddie found it necessary to warn the
15. It is not strange that in 1757 his health failed and in the closing weeks of
16. acres. He enlarged the house in 1760 and made further enlargements and
17. Pohick Church (16 times in 1760), entertained company, wrote letters, made
18. costs in America, decided in 1764 to obtain revenue from the colonies. Up to that
19. the Tory ministries of England. In 1768 he told George Mason at Mount Vernon that he
20. peace need not be broken. Late in 1770 he paid a land-hunting visit to Ft. Pitt, where
21. of correspondence formed in 1773 to communicate with other colonies, but when
22. over the frozen roads early in 1776. His position was at first precarious, for the
23. of a position on Long Island in 1776 that exposed his entire army to capture the
24. arrived to reinforce him in 1780, he pressed Admiral de Grasse to assist in an
25. intensely gloomy early in 1781, he was hampered by the feebleness of
26. the "Newburgh Address" early in 1783, he issued a general order censuring the paper
27. $10,000 to $15,000 a year. In 1784 he made a tour of nearly 700 miles to view the
28. the house and its landscaping in 1784-86. He tried to keep abreast of the latest
29. Lund Washington, retired in 1785 and was succeeded by a nephew, Maj. George
30. reluctantly to a second term in 1792 and his election that year was again unanimous,
31. Mount Vernon until his death, in 1792. Washington's losses during the war had been
32. between France and England in 1793, he again took Hamilton's view that the United
33. of the Whisky Insurrection in 1794 by federal troops whom Hamilton led in person
34. and care of his slaves. In 1798 his seclusion was briefly interrupted when the
35. in the Southeast of England in 1808, are not very promising. Summing up, it
36. had been published in 1820 by Harris and Son. Lear very probably knew
37. by Robert Cruikshank, issued in 1822 by John Marshall (Dickens refers to the same
38. nearly twenty years before, in 1846, without any extraordinary success". From the
39. by "the reprinting in London, in 1863, of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense, a book of
40. was already currently used in 1896 and could not be derived from the later
41. He was born in North Dakota in 1896 and never saw a big city until he came back
42. term "limerick" first appeared in 1896 in two letters by A. Beardsley ("I have tried to
43. he came back from France in 1918. He settled in Chicago, where he quickly
44. farm! Damn fool! RK: Then in 1919, his team, the Chicago White Sox, they threw
45. Day, created as Armistice Day in 1926 to honor those who died in World War I).
46. Naval Yards when I was born in 1952. My name's Ray Kinsella. Mom died when I was
47. in systematic theology in 1955. Rejecting offers for academic positions, King
48. laws unconstitutional. In 1957, seeking to build upon the success of the
49. non-violent techniques. Early in 1968, he initiated a Poor Peoples campaign designed
50. were submitted to Congress in 1970. With help from New York Democratic Rep.
51. letters were first published in 1971, the quotations were probably inserted in the
52. Doc Graham is dead. He died in 1972. '... And there were times when children could
53. interview he ever gave was in 1973. Guess what it's about? AK: Some type of team
54. for the holiday. Mass marches in 1982 for voting rights and 1983 to mark the 20th
55. Luther King Jr.'s birthday in 1985 -- a year before the first celebration of the
56. the farm. KK: Daddy. RK: In a minute, Karin! KK: There's a man out there on your
57. I'll take a little walk... be back in a while. TM: What do I tell him?
58. did one spontaneous thing in all the years I knew him. Annie, I'm afraid of that
59. ..._______________ RK: ... In all those years, did you ever ... Well, it s just that I
60. this occasion than ever before in American history." Though he served on none of the
61. Committee (SNCC) in April 1960, but he soon became the target of
62. when, reaching New York in April 1776, he placed half his army, about 9,000
63. at Newburgh on the Hudson in April 1782. He was astounded and angered when
64. to reinforce this post. In April 1754 the lieutenant colonel set out from
65. south or Clinton in New York. In August the French admiral sent definite word that he
66. was repaid by being appointed, in August 1755, while still only 23 years old,
67. busses were desegregated in December, 1956, after the United States Supreme
68. Man of the Year and, in December 1964, the recipient of the Nobel Peace
69. and his army in Virginia in February 1755, as part of the triple plan of campaign
70. not obey him, he rode north in February 1756 to Boston to have the question settled
71. friendship, but when we were in high school I made out with James Farrell, even
72. maintained his position. Early in his first term, Washington, who by education and
73. though he never published it in his lifetime: [Image]
74. and stock raising, and early in his teens he was sufficiently familiar with surveying
75. average .356 -- third highest in history! KK: Why'd they call him Shoeless Joe? RK:
76. to be the largest petition drive in history --- were submitted to Congress in 1970.
77. scars of an attack of smallpox. In July of the next year, Lawrence died, making George
78. Annie and I got married in June of '74. Dad died that fall. A few years later,
79. headlines through the world. In June, President Kennedy reacted to the Birmingham
80. than this." His greatest pride in later days was to be regarded as the first farmer of
81. British evacuation of Boston in March 1776. In those eight months he imparted
82. Though John Jay assured him in March 1786 that breakup of the nation seemed near
83. expressing his ideas. Retiring in March 1797 to Mount Vernon, he devoted himself for
84. against the Stamp Act in May 1765 and shortly thereafter gave token of his
85. again at the Raleigh tavern in May 1774, called for a Continental Congress, he was
86. states to meet in Philadelphia in May 1787 to "render the Constitution of the Federal
87. retreat. He spent a fortnight in May with the Continental Congress in Philadelphia,
88. as I've ever felt anything in my life. There's a reason. AK: What. Just tell me
89. I'd never done a crazy thing in my whole life. Voice: If you build it, he will come....
90. Returning to Virginia in November, he took command of the volunteer
91. legislation creating the holiday in November 1983, it marked the end of a persistent,
92. had resigned his commission in October 1754 in resentment of the slighting
93. is scheduled to be completed in October or November of 1998. MTD, Greyhound,
94. Even King's decision in October, 1960, to join a student sit-in in Atlanta did
95. Earth for mine. See you again in six weeks!' This was exactly one o'clock PM and as the little marmot
96. part in the movement. Late in the autumn the French evacuated and burned
97. in 1757 his health failed and in the closing weeks of that year he was so ill of a
98. from: Long years ago, in the days when much of my time was spent in a
99. hung out with the Beatles! Butin the end, it wasn't enough. What he missed was
100. The electors chosen in the first days of 1789 cast a unanimous vote for
101. There's no place for you here in the future! RK: It's just ... TM: Get back while you
102. That's four straight hits in the inning... KK: Daddy, what's a southpaw?
103. is now Cumberland, Maryland,in the middle of November and despite wintry weather
104. there in a hot Iowa cornfield in the middle of the season. But this isn't a case of
105. M : Ray, when the bank opens in the morning, they'll foreclose. TM: People will come,
106. of the government in the next eight years was marked by the caution, the
107. was at home in Mount Vernon. In the next four years Washington found sufficient
108. it this way: You and Emily are in the past, and you can't be mad about the past. So are
109. ``As we've celebrated it in the past, it's become a day where more people come
110. Exactly! Because it's in the past. Joey: Anybody going to eat that? Monica;
111. it became fully formalized in the 1820s and exploded after the publication of the
112. part of a Punch and Judy show in the 1780s: Dance a baby, diddy, What can
113. the end of its brief fad in the 1860s. (G. Legman, The Limerick, vol. 1, p.
114. had already had a brief fad in the 1820s; his limericks, based on a perfect balance
115. that for a while, but that was in the 20's. TM: What happened to your father? RK: He
116. way. It has been computed that in the seven years prior to 1775, Mount Vernon had
117. recruits flocking to camp in the spring, and encouraged foreign sympathizers
118. states met at Mount Vernon in the spring of 1785; from this seed sprang the federal
119. him home to Mount Vernon. In the spring of 1758 he recovered sufficiently to
120. of the French alliance in the spring of 1778, the aspect of the war was
121. H. Freas It is said that in the summer of 1887 a group of local hunters and
122. baseball represented to them in their youth. "Field of Dreams" will not appeal
123. sometimes went fox hunting. In these years he took snuff and smoked a pipe;
124. of Boston in March 1776. In those eight months he imparted discipline to the
125. the limitations that the crown in time laid on the westward movement. In 1752 Lord
126. Vernon, reaching New York in time to be inaugurated on April 30. The ceremony
127. I haven't had a cigarette in, what, 18 years. You don't smoke, do you? RK: No

1. Augustine had done much since 1738 to develop. Lawrence married Anne (Nancy)
2. It is the first new holiday since 1948, when Memorial Day was created.
3. hasn't been to a live baseball game since 1958. AK: So, in order to ease his pain, you're
4. have been banning this . since 1969! RK: ... Terence Mann? BK: You know why
5. Monica: I know. It's just that ever since high school Rachel was the one person that I told everything
6. You ready for this? 68 years since I wore this uniform. It still fits me like a glove.
7. has not been completely useless, however,since some of the structural inclinations of the form have emerged
8. It is among the nursery rhymes, since the early eighteenth century at least, that the limerick form will mainly be found"
9. who has led legislative efforts since the early 1970s. Another common argument,
10. has never been of the slightest real interest to anyone, since the end of its brief fad in the 1860s.
11. the following message: "Since the Groundhog ascended the Weather Throne .. (they) .. have pecked...
12. the streets, are exposed. Since the Interurban ran through many of the communities in the area, McKinley decided
13. was revealed to the public. Since then, Phil's fearless forecast has been a national media event.
14. they didn't know which one to watch! Since we only had one, we were declared the winner!"

1. a local trolley system until 1936. The history of the Illinois Terminal and
2. with public transportation locally until 1956. It was the company name for the
3. intercity transportation until 1956. Traces of the system still are a part of the
4. was held in secret until 1966, and only Phil's prediction was revealed to
5. Erhard. Charlie Erhard served until 1982, when he retired to Florida. Jim Means He
6. became more exaggerated and descriptive until all other weather forecasters, man or animal,
7. Little exists on any of the line until Augustine. He was an energetic,
8. 1896 and never saw a big city until he came back from France in 1918. He settled in
9. weeks. Then winter continues until he sticks his nose out again. But if the day is
10. who resided at Mount Vernon until his death, in 1792. Washington's losses during the
11. about to become a farmer! But until I heard the voice, I'd never done a crazy thing in
12. gradually increased the estate until it exceeded 8,000 acres. He enlarged the house in
13. while his army melted away, until it seemed that armed resistance to the British was
14. made encampment on Staten Island until its whole strength of nearly 30,000 could be mobilized
15. out of their winter burrows until March, according to DOC staff member Gary
16. Black Sox team but protested until the day he died that he played the best he could.
17. a case of sunstroke. Up until the farmer starts hearing voices, "Field of Dreams" is a completely sensible film
18. more than once in danger of capture,until the loss of his two Hudson River forts .. compelled him to retreat
19. Do the same for the next section. (until the main time frame changes again). c. When you
20. HIS successors followed suit ... until today when network television covers the event
21. I'm going to beat you with a crow bar until you go away. RK: Whoa! Wait! You can't do that.

1. you gave, a long time ago, about how you always dreamed of playing in
2. were little kids a long time ago. And they'll watch the game and remember what it
3. over 2,000 years ago. By believing that we were bigger and better than
4. It is worth noting that over 100 years ago Champaign was already on the "cutting edge" of transportation
5. But no regrets. RK: 50 years ago for five minutes you came this close. I mean, it
6. Cicotte, that was 68 years ago! Give it up, will you? EC: Hey, you guys want to
7. I spent all my misery years ago. I have no more pain left for any of you. I gave at
8. form from: Long years ago, in the days when much of my time was spent in a
9. Gobbler's Knob nearly a century ago, petty, prevaricating pretenders with
10. that Mann created 26 years ago, was named John Kinsella. My father! AK: Wow!

1. of Burgesses in Williamsburg. During 1760-74 he was also a justice of the peace for
2. As the boycott continued during 1956, King gained national prominence as a
3. Pilgrimage for Freedom. During 1958, he published his first book, Stride Toward
4. leadership were intensified during 1967 as urban racial violence escalated and King
5. and gentle voice of reason during a time of great madness. He coined the phrase
6. King in the Chicago area during an unsuccessful effort to transfer non-violent
7. campaign of mass protests during December of 1961 and the summer of 1962.
8. resubmitted the legislation during each congressional session. The Southern
9. year was again unanimous, during his last four years in office he suffered from a
10. very much opposed to him during his lifetime have come to see that segregation,
11. of personal expenditures during his service, kept with minute exactness in his
12. Phil's handler for many years. During his years as President of the Inner Circle, there had to be
13. Washington was ill with fever during June but joined the advance guard in a covered
14. toads in Ireland prior to and during Patrick's time. Folklore, Myth and Mystery
15. spoke at the Lincoln Memorial during the 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. During
16. than did King's moderation. During the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, King and
17. come not again. Roman legions, during the conquest of the northern regions supposedly brought
18. Rome and its persecutions during the first century, landed in the Britons, and
19. mobilize mass protest activity during the first five years after the Montgomery
20. "to bag the old fox." During the night, the wind shifted, the roads froze
21. and grains. His farm manager during the Revolution, a distant relative named Lund
22. free of conflicts with SNCC. During the spring of 1963, he and his staff guided mass
23. in 1792. Washington's losses during the war had been heavy, caused by neglect of his
24. the Revolution. Jacky died during the war, leaving four children. Washington
25. a wave of sit-in protests during the winter and spring of 1960. King sympathized
26. close. Washington remained during the winter of 1781-82 with the Continental
27. Have a Dream" oration. During the year following the March, King's renown
28. five years of the war, during which the American cause was repeatedly near

1. to come with me for a little while, and, what are you doing? TM: I'm going to beat
2. you come up to Limerick?' While Bibby's criticism of this connection seems
3. years. My dad did that for a while, but that was in the 20's. TM: What happened to
4. positions, King decided while completing his Ph. D. requirements to return to
5. a course of strict neutrality, while he acted decisively to stop the improper
6. to fend off bankruptcy alone while he drives to Boston to meet
7. then they fell to others, while he was left to face popular apathy, military
8. retired toward the Delaware while his army melted away, until it seemed that armed
9. I think I'll just ride along a while. I play baseball. RK: Hop in. MG: All right. I'm
10. awful, and left. After a while I wanted to come home, but I didn't know how. I
11. and sold into slavery. While in slavery he worked for six years as a
12. Montgomery boycott ended. While King moved cautiously, southern black college
13. push Valentine's Day. While legislation supporting these holidays has never
14. phrase "make love, not war." While other people were chanting "burn, baby, burn,"
15. XIII.1, October 1993) while other proposals by Bill Backe-Hansen (in the
16. 13 miles north of Wilmington. While part of the British force held the Americans
17. 1965 Voting Rights Act, but while participating in a 1966 march through
18. then I just walked around for a while. Rachel: You walked around all night
19. on April 4, 1968, while seeking to assist a garbage workers' strike in
20. appointed, in August 1755, while still only 23 years old, commander of all the
21. letters of the period show that while still utterly opposed to the idea of independence,
22. General Howe delayed. While the enemy lingered, Washington succeeded under
23. would blockade the Delaware while the militia of New Jersey and Pennsylvania
24. are given by convention while the space within these boundaries becomes a
25. moments of our lives while they're happening. Back then, I thought, 'Well,
26. a little walk... be back in a while. TM: What do I tell him?
27. as supine and dishonest while Washington defended them warmly. His freedom
28. you can't take off for Boston while we're going broke in Iowa! RK: Annie, this is
29. Hey! What if the voice calls while you re gone? RK: Take a message. AK: Bye! KK:
30. RK: It's just ... TM: Get back while you still can! RK: You've changed, do you know

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