Word: fallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most obvious way to get more out of college students, teachers and school facilities is to banish the long, fallow summer vacation. The means for doing so is the "trimester" plan, by which the school year is divided into three terms of 14 weeks each, leaving only one month of summer vacation and turning out B.A. graduates in less than three years. The largest application of the trimester plan got under way last fall in Florida, where by order of the state legislature all four state campuses (enrollment: 31,030) adopted the new calendar. Now, with a year of trimester...
...colleges and universities, serve for one year without pay, get mustering-out pay of about $900. Though draft-deferred, they will not be exempt from later military service. As Interior Secretary Stewart Udall recently put it: "We seek a new harvest of idealism that we have let lie fallow here at home...
...week its emerald green milo was near harvest; a more delicate green was presented by wheat shoots breaking through the rich soil's surface; still in olive drab was the stubble of the past wheat crop left in a third of the acreage to gather moisture and lie fallow for a year. All this bespoke prosperity, and Kansas' First District is certainly prosperous...
...vast central administration. With all the fervor of his old crusade for corn, he even plugged a brand-new party-line panacea: abandonment of Stalin's system of sowing grain fields to grass every few years.* Instead of allowing almost half the valuable land to lie fallow, Khrushchev decreed that farmers henceforth will rotate grain with peas, beans, sugar beets and other crops...
...ground of this. But the spinning, which worried me, soon stopped, and the rest of the descent went normally. All the equipment had worked splendidly, and the ship was headed precisely for the selected landing area. At 10:55 the Vostok, having circled the globe, landed safely in a fallow plowed field of the collective farm, Lenin's Way, southwest of the city of Engels not far from the village of Smelovka...