Word: harrowing
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...Tungching People's Commune near Nanking has a farm implements workshop where homemade steel is produced for tractor harrow blades. Even though the Nanking Iron and Steel Works plant is less than five miles away, the commune insisted on making its own steel as part of the drive for self-reliance...
...believe there is still a place for select schools of excellence." Mrs. Thatcher herself is the wife of a wealthy oilman, so she is among the 7% of British parents who can afford to send their children to expensive private schools (her 18-year-old twins went to Harrow and St. Paul's). "No one would demand that everyone live in the same kind of house," says Mrs. Thatcher. "So why shouldn't parents buy a different kind of education for their children...
...Iraq Petroleum Co. Nubar was born in a small village on the Bosporus at a time when the Turks were enforcing their rule by slaughtering the Armenian minority. He was spirited out of the country in a Gladstone suitcase and taken to England, where he attended Harrow and Cambridge. Though for many years he claimed Iranian nationality and in 1965 regained his Turkish citizenship, he spent most of his life in England...
...four years that he played for Harrow Weald Grammar, the team had a record of 116-21 and won three district championships. The year before he came to Harvard. Wilmot played center half on the All-England Grammar School team...
...system as it was before 1967. They can help create some form of federation on both sides of the Jordan River. Or they can separate. But all this can come only after the people are able to exercise their options without harassment." Translated from Hussein's Harrow-Sandhurst British understatement, that means after Israel returns the West Bank and its 700,000 people to Jordan...