Word: grained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...economic problems seem to be growing. "Here hopes must be tempered with caution," Kennedy said. But he indicated his certainty that Communism can breed only economic stagnation. "A closed society is not open to ideas of progress- and a police state finds that it can't command the grain to grow...
...former financier of the world," famous former Fertilizer King Billie Sol Estes, 38, told a Negro congregation in Indianapolis: "If man had followed Christ's simple plan, there would be no trouble today." Later in Toledo he called Solomon a "great farmer" for having stored up tons of grain. Both appearances were to raise money to send Church of Christ missionaries to Nigeria, both were sponsored by Old Estes Friend the Rev. Floyd Rose of Toledo, who asked in his introduction: "Is Billie Sol Estes guilty? They said Christ, too, was guilty...
...More. The mill wheel was the all-purpose appliance that could run saws, pump bellows, grind grain, keep trip hammers thumping, turn meat spits and rock babies, all at once. Woods were selected according to capability, and when a wagon was built-oak frame, elm sides and floor, ash spokes and shafts, pine seat, hickory slats-it lasted about twelve times as long as a Cadillac...
Against the American Grain, by Dwight Macdonald'. In a series of engaging essays, a razor-witted critic hews an assortment of U.S. cultural pretensions down to size...
...leaders. "When the bad crops began in 1959," explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts of cotton abroad...