Word: hay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...went out to Suffolk Downs early one Saturday morning and walked down the road to the stables. Nothing is more peaceful than a stable in the morning. As I passed the rows of stalls, the sweet smell of fresh hay floated up from the hay bins. Dogs and goats lolled in the bright sun. I watched a horse flick its tail lazily. He munched quietly on his hay, grinding the stalks with horizontal sweeps of his lower jaw. Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" drifted over from the Track Kitchen...
...sharpened and heightened, and I know what I'm supposed to be," she says. "I feel safer." With her gifts, she should. The ultimate comment on Maggie's precise, disciplined style comes from Noel Coward, who directed her in a deliciously campy revival of his play Hay Fever at the National in 1964. Coward has a horror of "faffing," which is the affected hemming and hesitating that shatters the rhythm of a line or a scene and blurs its point. "Maggie," proclaims Sir Noel, "never faffs." Except offstage. There she talks with nervous, thoroughbred gestures, twiddling with...
...Clicqnot Club plant in Millis, a workman was raking hay throuch water which flowed from the factory to the river in order to cleanse the water of heavy pollutants...
FELLOWSHIPS. The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded about 25 grants to blacks out of 186. Since 1952, about 35 blacks received Fulbright scholarships in the arts out of a total of 968. One bright spot was the Opportunity Fellowships granted in art by the John Hay Whitney Foundation, set up specifically to help disadvantaged students. Out of 74 awarded, 32 went to blacks...
...quarter inch, the northern tribes sent scouts to the south, chanting as they came, to ask the southern chiefs if relief from famine could be expected. And Io, hardly had the bikes of the emissaries been spotted on the horizon by the eagle-eyed and sleepless watchers, when the hay in the fields began to move and sigh and the Great Hot Wind from the Desert began to blow. Wind which in September would have been a sublime blessing, which would have caused the flowers to produce resin to coat their sacred leaves, the same hot wind in August brought...