Word: fallow
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...their remarkable gusto for such a role. One of Sarah's more enterprising daughters formed a liaison with a "low poet" of the Restoration named Congreve, and the son she bore died a hopeless drunkard. This was an omen perhaps of the centuries the family would lie fallow until another Churchill, half American by blood (great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Sarah), would rise to rally and astonish the Western world...
...level. Furthermore, under the new soil-bank program Benson hopes that farmers will increase the number of acres taken out of production well beyond last year's 1,064,000-acre total. Though some cottonmen fear that only the poorest acreage will be allowed to lie fallow, and that farmers will produce as much as ever by working their remaining acres harder, most applaud the program...
...only half the band arrived for a recording session, a new distribution of voices was evolved on the spot to make the few sound richer. The tune was Mood Indigo, and the broad-spaced trio at the start became one of Duke's sound trademarks. Other tunes lay fallow in the band's books until somebody set words to them and they caught on, e.g., Never No Lament (Don't Get Around Much Any More), Concerto for Cootie (Do Nothin' 'Til You Hear from Me). Ellington is accustomed to hearing his ideas unexpectedly used...
...Union Committee last week passed a motion to amend the Smoker out of the Committee's Constitution and thus out of existence. The amendment is scheduled to reach a final vote at the end of the required 15-day fallow period, ending after next week. A two-thirds majority of the Committee would eliminate the Smoker...
...heart of the measure is the so-called soil bank, through which the government would pay farmers for taking land out of production and putting it into soil-building grasses or leaving it fallow. On paper, this seems like the panacea Benson has so urgently sought during the past three years. Like most panaceas, however, its chances of working are slim...