Word: fallows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-and ten-year contracts with farmers to fallow single fields or whole farms...
Boors may not always thrive under Communism, as Nikita Khrushchev so sadly learned-but boars do fine. So do bears, stags, hares, fallow deer, and every other Eastern European game species. As a result, scores of Western sportsmen last week were crossing the Iron Curtain for an annual shotgun wedding of East and West in which commissars pile up tourist dollars and jaded capitalist hunters bag big-game thrills...
...Virgin Lands of Central Asia, where Khrushchev set out in 1954 to create a vast new granary, erosion now threatens to turn millions of acres into a dust bowl; most of the new croplands last year failed even to return their seed grain. His hasty campaign to plow under fallow grasslands has impaired huge areas of once-fertile soil since 1958. Khrushchev's evangelical efforts in 1961 to promote mass sowing of corn did more harm than good, as he himself admitted at the meeting...
...Nicolans side were Victoria Ortis, a Barnard student who made the trip to Cuba with Nicolans last summer, and two other students who asked that their names be withheld. These two students, along with Rogello Reyes, teaching fallow in Linguistics, intimated that Gaffney had not entered the lobby until after the incident...
...industry. The ten began a department-by-department survey of the company, asked so many questions that they were dubbed the "Quiz Kids" by resentful Ford oldtimers. When they swung into action, the name was derisively changed to Whiz Kids. They switched Ford's capital, long left fallow, into interest-bearing accounts that promptly began earning Ford $4,500,000 a year, analyzed everything from assembly lines to suppliers' carburetors to learn how to trim costs, and set up the modern management techniques that are still used at Ford today...