Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondent Art White covered the Oldham hospital, where the birth will take place, and observed a kind of press corps Keystone Kops comedy in which "Newsmen frantically fertilized and reimplanted in their own papers the daily crop of rumors...
...Beatles (/ Wanna Hold Your Hand) and the swan song of The Band (The Last Waltz). Now comes The Buddy Holly Story, a biopic about the pioneer rocker who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959. In many ways this film resembles the rest of the crop: it is rousing, if imperfect entertainment that treats its hero as a full-fledged saint. But in box office terms, The Buddy
...price objective included in the bill that 33 of my Senate colleagues joined me in sponsoring is 2.4? per lb. above the price in the present program, which expires with this crop. Not by anyone's reckoning does the present support price cover the average cost of production in the U.S Nor do today's world sugar prices meet production costs anywhere around the globe. Those factors, left unresolved, bode future shortages of a basic commodity vital to the U.S. food chain. We must maintain a domestic production capability...
...Chinese. But if the soldiers starve, the Japanese will take the land.") The army had emptied the countryside of food; shipped in no gram from grain-surplus areas; ignored the need of the people to eat. The army's tax, I found, was usually equivalent to the full crop, but in some cases it was higher-and peasants were sometimes forced to sell animals, tools, furniture, for cash to make up the difference. Moreover, the peasants were required to feed the army's animals when they marched; and one civilian official said of his peasants...
...race jockeys, carpenters, nobles, swordsmen, dancing girls, cooks, vegetable sellers, water carriers, lackeys, Kabuki actors, fishermen-the cast of characters is wide, embracing most of the classes and occupations in Japanese society-seen from the detached eyeline of upper-class patronage. The intimations of sympathy with underdogs that occasionally crop up in European genre painting are not to be seen here...