Word: hoe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...district had done the same, despite the organized holders' Farm Association warning that all such individually signed agreements were void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their harvest of hate. Crowed the Italian party organ Unita: "We have entered a new phase of major labor warfare...
...Being Murdered. The first effect of the marriage law, just as the Communists hoped, was to release a huge portion of the population from the feudal bondage of fathers and husbands to serve the new state in work cadres. The women, among other privileges, got the equality of the hoe and the lathe. By 1953 more than 1,000,000 women held jobs in Red China's industry. Mao Tse-tung's air force today has a squadron of jet fighters manned entirely by women. But the Red marriage law could not change...
...country is not determined wholly by the troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they had, and not to what they would like to have." Ike conceded that "their reduction has disturbed some of our NATO partners." But he added...
...Eisenhower said at his press conference that Britain had a heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water, and that it is trying to cut the cloth to what it has, not to what it would like to have. As we understand it, what the President is saying here is that the British are having to sink or swim in their effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom...
...whitecollar mob" and the "lonely crowd" have become the objects of much nervous concern. William H. (for Hollingsworth) Whyte Jr., an assistant managing editor of FORTUNE, is the latest and perhaps the most thoughtful writer to be thus concerned. His "Organization Man" is the man with the rotary hoe-the suburbanite who is doing well in technological America. Whyte wonders who slanted his skull into a middlebrow conformation and worries that the light may be blown out within his brain...