Word: furrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm laborers. "Village people in Suffolk in my day," he says, "were worked to death. It literally happened. It is not a figure of speech." The "old ones," he adds, responded to the harshness of their life by taking an almost insane pride in their work. "A straight furrow was all a man was left with." Thompson is typical of his generation. He starved during a childhood spent gleaning beans and wheat and picking up road-mending stones from the fields-at 50? for 24 bushels. He witnessed bloody horror as a machine gunner in World War I. Afterward...
...well-known task: answering the 150 or so letters a week from people requesting information-some additional bit of elaboration or an answer to a question. That is the demanding job for Marian Powers, Carla Lyddan and Mimi Olszewska, who find that unwrinkling readers' brows can put a furrow or two in their own. They do not, however, ghost term papers for students (January and February bring a flood of letters that start: "Please tell me everything about . . ."), help readers seeking financial advice or other special favors, or act as an answering service for every kind of request...
...correspondence with Ethel for his former carousing. Zachariah (James Spruill, a Boston University Fellow and director of the New African Company), only leers good-naturedly at the suggestion, Ethel: sixteen, white, and well-developed. Though wiser than Morris in knowing that dialogue does not replace sensual aspirations, in furrow-browed innocence Zachariah sees no reason why he should fear making it directly with his white...
...afraid of mental patients," says Psychiatrist Herman Matheussen, 38, director of the program. When a schizophrenic plowing a field suddenly stops and begins gesticulating in a hallucinatory argument with an imaginary persecutor, his foster father may say calmly, "Joseph, why don't you finish that furrow...
...Wilcox insists that these and other questions must be ironed out "as we look at individual courses and specific situations." His mind works on an operational level. He avoids definitions, generalizations, sweeping conclusions and philosophies of education. At a vague abstraction his brows furrow, a slight smile forms at the corners of his mouth. "You've got to talk about concrete situations", he says brusquely. "I don't believe there's any one flat philosophy that can serve everyone best. I think people sought to be given options...