Word: furrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...generations. Near Cerveteri, along the rolling hills of Via Aurelia, on a plot of 124 meager acres which had produced nothing but blackberries for years, the land-hungry were fiercely hacking away weeds and shrubs; one old man, behind a pair of snow-white oxen, turned a fresh furrow in the fallow earth to stake his claim...
...Deal, especially for his civil-rights program, hopes to make the Farmer a powerful political organ. Said he: "The Farmer is for any New Deal plan you can name." By last week Publisher Williams, 59, had about tripled Southern Farmer's circulation to 1,052,821, only a furrow's width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic approach. Instead of teMing his readers how to farm, Williams gives them advice on economic matters and something...
...daily column, Cope mixes his propaganda for the agrarian revolution with homely philosophy, simple humor, useful information and unabashed corn. Though most of his columns plow a straight furrow through common farm problems, he also roams as far afield as barbershop quartets and alcoholism. Cope's most celebrated column had nothing to do with farming. It was a sentimental epitaph for his dead Scottie, Mr. Burns...
...United Electrical Workers, meeting for their 13th annual convention in Manhattan, plowed straight down the Communist furrow, despite the gees and haws of the C.I.O.'s Secretary-Treasurer Jim Carey, onetime U.E. president. By overwhelming majorities, the delegates denounced the draft as "part of big business' war against the American people"; condemned the Marshall Plan as a tool of Wall Street; re-elected all their Red-minded officers...
...Southern way of life"; otherwise, he did not mention the subject of white supremacy. Instead, he talked about improving agricultural methods and backing the U.N. Said John Stennis, a teetotaler, a staunch Presbyterian and a family man (two children): "As a Senator ... I want to plow a straight furrow down...