Word: furrow
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...Evening Standard ran a bitter cartoon by David Low showing an aloof U.S. ploughing "the lonely furrow" straight across Orr's carefully cultivated world food field. And a Daily Mirror artist savagely crucified an agonized male figure labeled "World Hunger" on two skyscrapers marked "Wall Street," captioned his cartoon: "I thirst . . . and they filled a sponge with vinegar and put it to His mouth...
...Hardy has wrought a revolution in prairie agriculture. It began 15 years ago when he served as a judge in plowing matches. Then & there he decided that plowing matches were good fun, but a waste of farmers' time. What difference did it make how fast and straight a furrow could be plowed? The important thing was the productivity of the furrow and the cost of cutting it. Years of study taught him how to step up productivity, cut down cost. This month, on a backbreaking schedule, he and six helpers set out to give 150 field demonstrations, pass...
...fill the vacancy left by the death of Idaho's Republican Senator John Thomas, Idaho's Democratic Governor Charles G. Gossett exercised a governor's well-used prerogative. Sturdy Charles Gossett, a well-to-do farmer whose political thinking plows a furrow well to the right of center, resigned his governorship and let his successor appoint him to the vacancy on Capitol Hill...
...time poet, hoped that his political activity would show the same mixture of lyricism and practicality as his tribute to Peru's guano birds. They "leave a ... magic nitrogen fluid ... a concentrated essence of a longing for the sky, which . . . liberates the roots from the prison of the furrow, animates the stem, lifts the branches and raises flowers into the air-and makes the petal wings tremble like a little bird avid for space and freedom...
...chancel steps and knelt around it. Then another farmer gave thanks for God's gifts while the congregation joined him in repeating the last three words of each sentence: "The rich soil, the smell of the fresh-turned earth-come from God. . . . The beauty of a clean-cut furrow, the sweep of a well-ploughed field -come from...