Word: fallows
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...business of trying to pick a major to match a job is just Russian roulette," says Harvard's Freeman. Today's "hot" fields-engineering or accounting, for example-could be glutted in a few years much as aerospace science, the glamour field of the early 1960s, fell fallow by the decade's end. Besides, asks Herbert Salinger, director of career planning at Berkeley: "Should we turn someone off to a field that really interests him" because job prospects are slim...
...apart. Explained the pack's leader: "We feel that they deserve a chew." A pert stewardess plunked down $500 to "harvest" her first buffalo; then she pointed to the hoofs: "Jim, did I want those for footstools?" In the program's grossest scene, a languorous fallow deer was shot seven times at pointblank range; then a burly rifleman grasped the antlers for his mandatory macho snapshot...
...kind of scholar's study that would appear in a Victorian novel: papers are everywhere, ashtrays are full of the professor's pipe tobacco and cigarette butts and books lie in every manner of arrangement--books with fifteen bookmarks, books face-down on their binding, and books lying fallow--most of them with the dull dark red covers of the University libraries...
...would certainly help counter the rising rate of street crime, but psychiatrists point out that a person who is crazed enough to want to kill a national political figure would somehow find a way to get his hands on a weapon. Ford's proposed gun legislation, now lying fallow in Congress, is aimed mainly at curbing the spread of "Saturday night specials"−cheap, small-caliber pistols. The .45 Colt automatic operated by Squeaky Fromme is not covered by the proposal...
...studios and darkrooms abound on campus, many lying fallow in House basements. Facilities and art course instruction (in pottery, photography, life drawing, print making, etc.) are usually intended first for use by House members, but frequently the courses are not filled, and freshmen and students from other Houses are allowed to use the excellent House resources...