Word: hay
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Finding needles in the proverbial hay-stack would be light work for the dozen girls who run the Alumni Records Office in Widener, whose day-to-day tasks involve files of more than 88,000 living Harvard men and many generations of deceased graduates...
...dictionary calls it "a catarrhal affection of the mucous membranes of the eyes, nose, and respiratory tract," and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the only cure for it "is six feet of gravel, taken externally," but all these unfortunates cursed with hay fever know that it is one damn nuisance...
...even at its most Middle Western, Russia can go suddenly Middle Eastern. I saw two camels hitched to a hay-cutter of the exact model we use on my farm in New Jersey...
...this time of year, it was oddly quiet in the blue-grass country of Kentucky. As a matter of fact, there had not been much talk about the wonders of homebred hay-burners since an upstart Texan named Assault romped off with the 1946 Derby. Now a fresh crop of upstarts was taking dead aim on the 1947 Derby target...
...Castro cabled him so urgently. The Government wanted 50,000 trucks, wanted them fast, and had the dollars to pay for them. In bettered transport it saw a way of moving food from farm to market, and thus of hitting inflation and the black market. The Communists were making hay out of skyrocketing food prices, and the Government was worried...