Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months later, at harvest time when Jean announced that he had got a job as a dishwasher in a summer resort hotel at Vichy, twelve miles away, and would take Marie with him, Pierre called his wife and daughter into conference. "We have to remove him," the old peasant announced. Out of a cupboard he took an old revolver. But the cartridges were duds. "Let's stab him in the belly," Pierre suggested. It was finally agreed that the deed should be done with a shotgun, and that Marie-Helene should take the blame-for, as Louise told...
...Doyle Haynes and Kenneth Charles Burns, both 33, are singing Tennessee hillbillies who take such pop hits as Doggie in the Window and turn them into guitar-plucking parodies. Professionally, the boys are known as Homer and Jethro, and last week they were as busy as a combine at harvest time, raking in money ($60,000-$70,000 this year) from some two dozen such recorded tunes and personal appearances...
...harvest of the new wheat crop began in Texas and Oklahoma last week, Department of Agriculture officials started to worry. Where will the U.S. put the wheat...
...Nantucket copied the Indian technique of taking whales stranded close in shore. Later on, they pursued them far out into the Atlantic. By the beginning of the Revolution, the pursuit was taking the whalers as far as Cape Horn, and they were bringing back an annual harvest of 30,000 barrels of oil for the lamps and candles of the U.S. and Europe. There was even a highly profitable use for the whalebone: corset stays...
...basis of prewar army records, Korean soldiers do not bear much resemblance to a field that is white unto a chaplain's harvest. About 1.6% are Confucianists, 1.2% Buddhists, 4.6% Christians (mostly Presbyterians), and 92.6% are without any religious affiliation at all. But with the war came demands for the consolations of religion, and no chaplains to fill them. It was 1951 before a ROK chaplaincy corps was organized under the guidance of two veteran missionaries, Methodist Dr. William E. Shaw and Roman Catholic Monsignor George M. Carroll...