Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wide, and wilting. As for Dawson's usually rich crop of corn, folk wisdom has it that the stalks should be "as high as an elephant's eye by the Fourth of July," but now they are only three or four feet tall and not likely to grow much higher. Says Bobby Locke, head of the agricultural commission of the Dawson Chamber of Commerce: "We're just trying to survive...
...month's cloud seeding at a total cost of $75,000. Last week the chairman of the fund-raising committee. Bill Whitaker, wrote Actor Burt Lancaster, reminding him that he had once starred in a movie called The Rainmaker (1956) and asking him to help "the farmers who grow these suffering crops...
...cake.'" Departing from Chief Justice Warren Burger, his "Minnesota twin," Blackmun roundly scolded his colleagues: "There is another world 'out there,' the existence of which the court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women to bear children," and said that he was "appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a 'right to life' that means a bare existence in utter misery for so many." Justice...
...true streetcar routes in town. The ride may be pure agony to the impatient, but the Arborway stop at the end of the line is just a short walk from the entrance to the Arnold Arboretum--a Harvard-owned park that supposedly has every kind of plant that will grow in Boston's climate. And they have some bizarre growths. The woody, rolling hills there are the farthest back-to-the-woods you can get by subway...
Many economists believe that Carter's proposals are more than adequate to stabilize farm prices without driving them so high that U.S. goods are forced out of foreign markets. High price supports, critics contend, fuel inflation, tempt farmers to grow more than they can sell and enable less efficient growers to pursue wasteful ways. So far, legislators do not agree-and unless they back down, the stage is being set for an open confrontation between Carter and a Congress controlled by his own party...