Word: clovers
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...admitted that the clover she shipped specially from her Maine farm was pretty good clover, but it got hot en route; so he threw it away. When she discovered one day that one of Tom's grooms had a "mean face," Tom sacked him; there were other grooms. Says he: "I try not to hurt her feelings...
...security underwriters were in such clover as they had not whiffed since the Big Blow hit Wall Street 16½ long years ago. The Securities & Exchange Commission reported this week: corporate stock and bond issues in 1945 shot up to $5.8 billion, almost double the 1944 total...
Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon that...
These three turned the ideas of old Major (he had died) into a complete system of thought called Animalism. Their most faithful converts were two cart horses, Boxer and Clover. These two had a hard time thinking anything out for themselves. But they absorbed everything the pigs taught them and passed it on to the other animals in simple form...
...Comrade! "The pigs did not actually work, but directed and supervised the others. With their superior knowledge it was natural that they should assume the leadership. Boxer and Clover would harness themselves to the cutter or the horserake ... and tramp steadily round and round the field with a pig walking behind and calling out 'Gee up, comrade!' or 'Whoa back, comrade...