Word: fallow
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...Used Deals. Other phrases have also lain fallow for decades before being well turned again for a new generation of voters. F.D.R.'s "New Deal" was Prime Minister David Lloyd George's campaign slogan of 1919, and Robert La Follette used it in 1924. But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866. Otherwise the phrase is probably as old as card games...
Pappenheimer said yesterday that he only meant that he "might" bring up the matter, and that in any case he would like to see the issue "He fallow for a while...
...violence as the city. Writer-Director Costas Manoussakis includes several countryside shots as primitive and beautiful as a cave painting, but most of the time his grossly photographed story seems less written than plowed; his actors are rarely given more to do than grunt and stare emptily at the fallow land. In this case, its dramatic surface has barely been scratched...
Returns from Monday's CRIMSON rock 'n' roll quiz reveal the pressing urgency of a course in this important subject. Harvard has always been considered a barren field for this corn, but each succeeding year that it is allowed to lie fallow the prospects of a respectable harvest will diminish. At one time and in proper places almost all the songs referred to in the quiz were commonly played, and often prayed to. But with the trend toward younger generations, a whole culture may soon be lost...
...main problem to date has been that rehabilitation is costly, time-consuming and inconvenient. It requires a major investment in property that has, at best, a low-profit potential. Beyond that, eviction of the present paying tenants means that the building remains fallow during the months of renovation work. Last week New York City and federal housing authorities teamed up with the civic-minded Carolyndale Foundation to stage an impressive demonstration of what can be done to rehabilitate a slum structure in just 48 hours...