Word: cropped
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...considerable charm, partly, one suspects, because Buchan would so clearly have behaved that way himself, partly because it offers a refreshing change from the satyrical cynicism of today's crop of international gumshoes...
...back to. An advance party that returned to Tristan last August reported that the volcano had ruined most of their houses, killed all their sheep, and destroyed the fish-freezing plant where many earned their living. But there were still fish in the sea, enough land for their potato crop, and green grass for the cattle. The exiles could hardly wait to leave. For though they had found good jobs and a warm reception in "h'England," most islanders -who are descended from sailors shipwrecked on the island in the 19th century -just could not cope with progress. Said...
...South, where a typical reading yesterday was 5 above at Montgomery, Ala., the Weather Bureau promised a general but slow warming trend through today. Florida should continue to be plagued with hard freezes that caused millions of dollars of crop damage yesterday, when the state's low was 10 above at Tallahassee; Miami recorded 35 degrees...
Herring & Hot Plates. This year's crop of Americans in Russia comes from campuses as diverse as Berkeley and Emory. Most students are in their early 30s; all speak Russian. Topics of study tend to be esoteric: Russian comment on the French Encyclopedist Diderot, peasant self-government after the emancipation of the serfs, the attitude of the Czarist gentry to peasant reform. The predominant hoariness of the subjects is partly a result of Russian reluctance to open archives on recent events, for in Soviet practice, as one American put it, "What is history today may be non-history tomorrow...
Although his present crop of sophomores figures heavily in an 8-1 Fall record, McCurdy predicts that his freshman "may offer more support to the varsity next year than their counterparts...