Word: hoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the milpas are very rocky, with white stones everywhere in the black earth. The Indians hoe around the rocks and around the corn, deft and sure in upturning the green, prolific weeds within a fraction of an inch of the corn shoots--never uprooting the corn, never cutting through the bean plants or squash vines they grow with the corn...
...three sessions together, Johnson and Sarit got down to brass tacks. At one point, the Vice President bemused the Premier by making a solid point with some corn-pone rhetoric: "My daddy taught me back in Texas what to do when you see a snake. We take a hoe off the wall and get him: Now, there are lots of snakes around here. We have our hands on the hoe handle. Are you going to grab the handle with us so we can get those snakes together...
When the Premier and the Vice President finally emerged from their ornate conference room, Sarit put his hands on the hoe by agreeing to send his Foreign Minister that night to the 14-nation conference on Laos in Geneva. The Thais had been disgustedly boycotting the meeting, because they felt-justifiably-that it was bound to give Laos to the Communists. Said a relieved U.S. State Department aide: "It's a lot more effective to have the Thais there spelling out the hopes and fears of the Asian nations than to have the U.S. trying...
...called to the priesthood in their middle age or later have a rough scholastic row to hoe: a six-year course in competition with young men already in the swing of studying. Only one Roman Catholic seminary specializes in training older men-Rome's Beda College, which last year graduated 14 men (one American) at an average age of 46. Beda recently announced that it could no longer accept Americans because of overcrowding, and last week Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing announced that the second such seminary would be built in his archdiocese...
Survival of the Fittest. Despite the Globe's circulation inroads and the P-D's belated concern, the Globe has a long row to hoe before it catches up with the Post-Dispatch as a newspaper. Amberg has brought many improvements to the Globe-Democrat; yet the P-D remains more thoughtfully written and edited, has much superior Washington and foreign coverage. Says one Post-Dispatchman: 'We're harder to read, we're long as hell, and sometimes we're not as bright as we should be. But a serious reader has to see the Post-Dispatch to know what...