Word: hoe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feathery things are coming back,'' he said. "Privately, the big dealers are buying them up and salting them away." He looked over his own museum's Barbizon collection, decided that by adding paintings from local collectors (including Millet's once famous Man with a Hoe), he would have a strong start toward a major show. Howe took his idea to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, which also had a sizable Barbizon collection. Before long he had an imposing list of honorary sponsors, including French Culture Minister Andre Malraux and Sir Philip Hendy, director...
...bother, and it refused to move quickly to step up production to meet demand. In fact, Wilkinson's bosses make little secret of the fact that their primary interest is in promoting the steady sales of their high-priced garden tools-among them, the three-edged "swoe" (sword-hoe), which Wilkinson considers the first improvement on the hoe in 2,000 years. They bypassed U.S. drugstores with their, blades and gave them to hardware dealers who tried to lure garden-tool customers by offering them Super Swords as well...
Freeman realizes he has a tough row to hoe as Secretary of Agriculture, but he has no plans to back down from his bold programs. "I like to know where people stand and let 'em know where I stand." he says. "Pussyfooting around doesn't appeal to me." In recent weeks, Washington has been buzzing with rumors that if Freeman's grain program does not get through this year, he will be moved to another, less controversial Administration job. The White House flatly denies the gossip. Jack Kennedy likes Freeman as Secretary of Agriculture. "Besides," asks...
...labor costs and makeup time have made it attractive to newspapers and periodicals of small circulation, where speed is not as essential as it is to metropolitan dailies. The time may come when offset speed will compete on near-equal terms with letterpress. In The Bronx. N.Y.. R. Hoe & Co., which makes both offset and letterpress equipment, is currently testing a web offset press, incorporating many improvements conceived by a Copenhagen printing firm, that is designed to print a 72-page newspaper, in four colors, at speeds in excess of 50,000 copies an hour. This...
...began again in the afternoon, talking as we worked, but not stopping. Once in a while one of the men paused to spit on his hands, or to push the black mud off his hoe with his bare foot. We never wore our leather sandals while working. Sometimes we would hoe over an ant hill, and the small black ants would nibble at our feet...