Word: fallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take New York if you renamed Sixth Avenue for him. And for good reason: he lives on a houseboat, makes a dandy income manufacturing Sno-Fuzz machines (Sno-Fuzz is a kiddy confection), and practices a kind of Greco-Roman wrestling with any number of ladies. In fallow periods he daydreams of Ava Gardner-a whimsy not among the author's bubbliest...
Operation Consume, the Republican program, offers to repay the farmer in kind for land which he agrees to take out of production. Under this program, no farmer would receive funds from the Federal government. Instead, for example, a wheat-grower will allow his land to lie fallow, receiving the equivalent amount of grain from the Federal storage bin. He would then sell this wheat at market prices...
...insect pests in the northern provinces, floods along the southern coast. But nature's harshness was compounded by the adoption last year of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "three-thirds" theory of agriculture, under which one-third of China's land was to be left fallow each year, one-third was to be given over to forest and the final third to be intensively cultivated Japanese-style...
...Fallow Minds...
...other hand, [summer courses] work in vacation time many students and teachers who ought not to do anything, whose minds ought to lie fallow and recuperate with their bodies, and for whom in doing this the ordinary vacation is none too long. Much as the summer schools may seem to be accomplishing an important result, we believe they are in keeping with that effort to cheat nature by making more out of life than can reasonably be made, which is one of the great characteristics of modern life in this country...