Word: grazed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When Polaroid says it will give money to assist, education, it is not helping blacks at all-it is damaging them," he said. "Prime Minister Verwoerd used to say, 'We do not want to give the natives an education that will let them gaze on what they may not graze...
...back to the palace-car, I of course, moving the old lady, babe and baggage, every time. By and by we came to a corner, and on going round it saw a calf on the track. It did not move at our approach, but only stared and continued to graze coolly on the rails and sleepers. The train came to a stop, which was not very hard, considering its rate. Then the conductor and Bill and the fireman spent an hour in trying by "hollering," chasing, forcing, coaxing, pelting, praying, beseeching, and cursing to induce that calf to leave...
...many must hold other jobs to feed their families. Near Balko, where his grandfather settled in 1907, Travis Boston, 39, figures that he may be the last of his family to cling to farming. He owns 320 acres and leases an equal amount of land to raise wheat and graze his 40 head of cattle, but he has to operate a Phillips 66 gas station as well. He needs more acreage if he is to make farming profitable, but claims that the banks will not lend him any money, while "doctors and lawyers buy the land at inflated prices...
...graze the glassy prairie and whinny their fear...