Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just about canceled out the raise. He had heard that model government houses, of cement and adobe, might soon be built on his finca. But his boss, the same finca manager who had been on the place for 35 years, was still there demanding work. Juanito swung his hoe...
...London the family had been sedulously boning up on South African history, politics, economics and the Afrikaans language (they could all now say a cheery "How do you do?"-Hoe gaan dit?-to their hosts) while Britain's leading designers, Hartnell, Molyneux and Thaarup, labored feverishly on trousseaux. Fashion reporters were invited to see the new clothes but editors had to sign a solemn promise that the clothes would not be described until the royal ladies had appeared in them. Meanwhile, hints kept Britain's newspaper readers in more or less breathless anticipation...
...surprised. Gus Kuester ran a hoe-hardened hand through his silvery hair, told his colleagues in his slow, casual way that the chief thing he has in mind is a successful session...
...events, the burden of proof has now been placed on the delegates and on the Conference which opens in Chicago eight days hence. It is a tricky row they must hoe to prove themselves, avoiding the pitfalls of hysterical red-baiting on one side and fearful inertia on the other. But show themselves to be hard-headed they must...
There's gold in the U. S. Treasury, and with it G.I.'s can learn to fly, dance, hoe potatoes, cut out paper dolls, or play tiddledy winks, but the University Information Office within whose ken passeth all things weren't so sure they had the answer to the telephone voice which said...