Word: fields
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Work was the same for everybody else in the little village, Moras En Valloire. Next to our peach orchard was a small tobacco field, where a father and son worked each day from early morning until late at night. From where we picked peaches we could see them, bent over like tumbled-down scarecrows, pulling the weeds out by hand as they slowly moved up and down the rows...
...people had just recently been killed in a liquid propane truck explosion in Spain, and I vividly recalled the newspaper photos of bodies turned to charcoal. So when Gilles Vallet suggested refilling the fuel tank, I discreetly walked off to examine the corn at the other end of the field...
Under the University's tenure system, Dominguez's appointment must be reviewed by an ad hoc committee including President Bok, Dean Rosovsky, and outside experts in the professor's field. If approved by this committee, the grant of tenure would have to be approved by the Board of Overseers...
Dominguez, whose field is Latin American government and American relations with Latin America, teaches Government 20, "Introduction to Comparative Government," in the fall, and courses in Latin American politics and government
Farmers and other country folk who live in seismically active areas have long insisted that animals often act strangely before a quake. Scientists' traditional skepticism about these reports has begun to erode, partly as a result of the work of China's "barefoot seismologists." These field workers have used observations of every kind-including changes in the level, temperature, color and smell of well water, and even the behavior of pandas in zoos-to make successful predictions of impending temblors...