Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teach the secret of his miracles. He made princes shed their robes, put on working clothes, and go into the fields to get dirt under their nails just like the Untouchables. Soon, to their native states the student potentates took back a firsthand knowledge of contour farming, water conservation, crop rotation. Today the Allahabad Institute is a 600-acre demonstration farm with a student body...
...production in the Midwest is 30 to 40% less than a year ago, despite a bumper crop of feed corn. The reason: the price of corn is fixed too high in relation to the fixed price of hogs...
...some, it might have seemed that there was little tangible evidence that he had ever been at St. Luke's at all. There was nothing much to prove it: just a new gymnasium and a handful of fruit trees he himself had planted (last year's crop: two apples, twelve cherries). But St. Luke's parishioners, if no one else, knew what Father Schlueter had done: that he had lived among them as a simple...
...Gardener & the Gauleiter. For years, old Anton and his beautiful niece. Leni, had raised succulent beer-radishes on the little island, while his two old sisters, Martha and Anna, sailing up & down at opposite ends of a seesaw, had pumped the Danube water over the crop. "Bolshevist swine," said Gauleiter Stoltz, when he saw the Fischers after the affair of the pig. "Lord & Lady of Radish Island, and two old crows." Old Anton rose from his seat in the beer garden, carefully removed the Gauleiter's spectacles, and smacked both sides of the Nazi's fat face until...
...Bishop's Miracle. The Gauleiter, who wanted Leni himself, was furious. He pestered the Fischers mercilessly, but he was too afraid of the bishop's popularity to go too far. His thugs smashed the windows in the bishop's palace, ruined the Fischers' radish crop. But when the 'Gauleiter finally stormed over to the island in person, Paul killed him with a spade. "[Now] they will come for all of us," sighed the bishop. "Pray, bishop . . . ask for a miracle," cried the Frenchman...