Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...towns from the Appalachians to the Rockies, for all of our history a taproot that nourished the other branches. The crisis of the farms themselves has passed for now, but around Greenfield's town square the economic strain has worsened. A hardware store, a drugstore, a grocery store, a Ford dealership have all closed within three years. County residents are lured to the shopping centers of Des Moines, 60 miles east over smooth highways they helped build...
Writing the story of the land and people was enough. He set up his huge Graflex in the middle of Depot Street one evening to photograph the grain elevator gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front...
...Hampshire town to say this. "Thanks," I tell her modestly, wondering if it would be all right to twirl my mustache. I borrowed this Mazda MX-5 Miata three days ago. People edge away when I park my usual vehicle, a large black four-wheel-drive Ford plow truck with red pinstriping and air horns. But the Miata gets passersby smiling and talking: teenagers, old couples, a fellow dressed in muscles and a camouflage shirt at a tire store, bicyclists in bicycle suits. Other conspicuous cars are costly and imposing and draw hate waves, as they are intended to. Decent...
During that struggle, Harvard played an active role in supporting the effort to defeat the Axis Powers, according Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman '31. Classes were accelerated to allow students to graduate early and join the armed forces. Harvard's president during the war, James Bryant Conant '14, played a large role in developing the atomic bomb. And the University had a special school to train administrators who helped run the American district in Germany after that country's surrender...
...Washington politicians have been diligently studying measures to curb airline buyouts. A bipartisan bill drafted by Arizona Republican John McCain and Kentucky Democrat Wendell Ford, who chairs the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, would give the Transportation Department the authority to reject proposed takeovers if they involve too much debt. At the same time, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner is devising an Administration policy on how to respond to the takeovers...