Word: furrowings
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Early in its farm season the Senate had seemed to be plowing a straight furrow. There was almost unanimous support for the Eisenhower Administration's soil bank plan, which could reduce surpluses and put some sure money into farmers' pockets this year. In the first votes on the issue, a majority upheld the Administration's flexible price support system (TIME, March 19). But then political pressure got too strong, blocs of special interest Senators amended the bill to a condition described by Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken as "tortured and battered, warped and emasculated...
...shooting week on the Israeli-Egyptian border, and a U.N. cease-fire is pending. Sent to the Gaza area with orders that any further Israeli action is to be met by massed retaliation. Major General Amer has action to report: an Israeli armored force has just crossed the ploughed furrow dividing the two countries and is laying siege to an old British police fort five miles inside the border...
...young Israeli farmers who labor, gun in hand, in nearby desert settlements, the Gaza strip is an intolerable threat to their lives and lands. To the Egyptians patrolling its long salient of indefensible dunes, it remains a symbol of Arab defiance against unconfessed defeat. Behind the 20-inch-wide furrow that passes for its frontier, 219,000 Arab refugees squat in sandy squalor, existing only on U.N. charity and staring balefully across the border at the slopes now green with Israeli corn...
...started in 1891, when San Simón purchased 350 acres of government land that El Guarda was squatting on. Outraged, the El Guardians hastily plowed a big furrow around "their" property, challenged the San Simonites to cross. The men of San Simón accepted the challenge. On bloody raids they smashed and burned, attacked El Guardians. Naturally, the El Guardians retaliated in kind. Once, after a San Simon boy trespassed in El Guarda and was spanked, the resultant raids and counter-raids of vengeance wiped out four complete families in one afternoon...
...signal. A band played the national anthem and enemies rushed forward to embrace enemies. "Viva San Simón," shouted the people of El Guarda. "Viva El Guarda," responded the people of San Simón, and they hugged and kissed, and trampled smooth the earth where the furrow had been...