Word: harvesters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to the world. "The Polish people are digging themselves out of the greatest political, intellectual and moral destruc tion ever known. . . . A Polish woman remarked to me today, 'We are weary of dying'. . . . It is a forbidding picture, but with food until the next harvest, Poland can rise again." The Responsibility. From Warsaw Hoover hurried on to Helsinki, then to London. A continent's anguish cried out through him as he spoke to an international emergency conference on European grain supplies: "Hunger sits at the table thrice daily in hundreds of millions of homes. . . . The world...
...essentially a nature-loving mystic. He is a teller of wry, earthy stories of the peasants in whom he professes to see the joy of the good life embodied. He has written about these people, sometimes bafflingly but always with zest and imagination, in The Song of the World, Harvest, and Joy of Man's Desiring...
...Random Harvest. In Yokohama, a sentry spotted two Japs in a forbidden area, fired in warning, cut the power line to a Red Cross doughnut factory, ruined 56,000 doughnuts...
Almost a hundred districts had been officially declared stricken. The staple summer crop, corn, had failed and the country faced famine. At best the harvest could be no bigger than half the 22 million bags needed...
...Revolution came sooner and was won more easily than anybody expected. Before hay harvest, Farmer Jones got drunk for two days. Nobody milked the cows or fed the animals. At last the frenzied creatures broke into the feed room. When Jones and his men arrived with whips, the animals turned on them and chased them off the farm...