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Mowing
No sound but the heated throb of a mower And nothing in my head but a tick of fear As cogged eyes clock the three long hours of lawn. But what this whirring locust can't devour......
The Game Was Worth The Scandal
Karl Miller B rian Clough's retirement from foot - ball has been clouded by a series of allega - tions. Journalists are charging that he has been greedy for money, while giving......
Heavy Reign In Spain
Simon Courtauld FRANCO by Paul Preston HatperCollins, £25, pp. 1002 T he story goes — though not told in this book — that during Franco's last illness in 1975 he was talking to......