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Answer for the clue ""The Age of Anxiety" poet ", 2 letters:
em

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (Latn-def en name M m) 2 (context typography English) A unit of measurement equal to the height of the type in use. Etymology 2 pron. (context neologism English) them (qualifier: singular). {{non-gloss definition|gender-neutral third-person ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Em (М м; italics: М м ) is a letter of the Cyrillic script . Em commonly represents the bilabial nasal consonant , like the pronunciation of in "hi m ". It is derived from the Greek letter Mu (Μ μ).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
name of the letter M , c.1200, from Latin; the Greek name was mu . In printing, originally the square corresponding in dimensions to the capital M of that type.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
M \M\, n. (Print.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the square of a body of any size of type [syn: mutton , mut ] a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: pica em , pica ]

Usage examples of em.

She could very finely gauge what would annoy Aunty Em, what was safe and what was not.

Now that Dorothy had been scrubbed and boiled and shorn for months, she was clean enough to sit next to Aunty Em.

Ef I knowed whar to find em, deys some my white folkes lib in dis town.

Mr Hurst, a gentlEman farmer whom Em, Harry suspected, had long had in her matchmaking sights.

Nestor added that it was his personal opinion as a witness of the event that the reason Lidia rammed him with her head was because Pablito could not perform as a man, and rather than being em- barrassed by the whole thing, she hit him.

When dem Klu Klux fust cum in operation de niggers think dat dey is hants er spirits, till dey fine out dat dey warnt nuthin but white mens wid dem garments on em.

Janet sat in the back of a Roanoke EMS ambulance, sucking on an oxygen mask while the EMTs worked on the two agents behind privacy screens in the yard.

If Corry was hooked up to Aley, and Aley was hooked up to Hunt, even I could figure out that Hunt had been in on all this at least since Corry hooked up with Em.

Bade, a Hombourg, a a Wiesbaden, a Ems, a Spa, ou ils tenaient boutiques de renseignements et de lecons.

Standing near each mobile staircase were his own guys, Port Authority cops and EMS people, positioned to get on board and begin the shitty job of unloading the corpses.

The only thing Obi-Wan could hear was the steady, mechanical hum of the sublight engines, a sound that em- anated from the main engine room at the left end of the corridor.

Around the hump of the Groningen peninsula, the Ems and Jade never gave access to more than tidal inlets.

They rolled them into position, and roped the wheels together with rawhide ri ems to prevent the Nguni pushing them aside and forcing a breach.

For the maintenance of the wagons there were two drums of tar to be mixed with animal fat to grease the wheel hubs, heavy coils of rawhide trek ropes, ri ems and straps, yokes and yoke-pins, lynch-pins for the wheel hubs, rolls of canvas and coir matting to repair the tents.

Whatever contaminants there are in the air here, those poor shmucks are especially vulnerable to em.