Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Renato Guttuso. His painting of a peasant wood chopper being shot in the back gave a broad hint of why Guttuso's Italian fellow Communists now object to his work. The poster-bright colors and the shapes which looked as if they had been hacked out by a hoe were reminiscent of Comrade Picasso's art, but like Picasso's they deviated from the "realism" the party presently admires. At the opposite extreme was 52-year-old Antonio Donghi's meticulous The Hunter, which had the quiet dignity of a procession...
Suburbia. Their first house was on Staten Island, where they met Edwin Markham and formed a friendship that endured until Markham's death. Muñoz' translation of The Man with the Hoe is still regarded as the authoritative Spanish version...
Frankfurter, speaking from a low crouch, cited the famous Colorado vs. Wyoming case (1922) to back up his point. "I might also mention stare decisis, ex parcel post, and hic haec hoe...
Dangerous Dan, 28, now a $125-a-month orderly at a Mount Vernon (N.Y.) hospital, was enjoying the landslide he had set in motion. He still had a long legal row to hoe before collecting any of the $300,000. But he was not backing down. Said he last week: "I'm back in my own country now and I can't play ball. That's why I'm going through with this case...
Along China's turgid riverbanks gongs were ringing. Their summons brought villagers running through the wet darkness, crying: "Chiu ming! Chiu ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...