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Many farmers held their breath as the spring thaws came to a land still saturated with water. Last April, Blake Hurst, 37, who farms 2,500 acres with his father and two brothers near Westboro, Missouri, stood in a soggy snow flurry and looked down on the family's land in the Tarkio River valley, more than a third of which had been covered with water 15 months ago. Bulldozers growled and snorted, pushing dirt back into breaches in the series of levees that have protected the Hurst holdings for three generations. "What is it going to be this year...
...crops had grown at visibly record rates. "I'd never seen Iowa so green in June," he says. In late July the corn pollinated in textbook order, and still there were none of the legendary 100 degrees days that pound crops at crucial moments of development. By August, Blake Hurst, nearby in Missouri, was beginning to be a believer. The family decided to cut some green corn for silage. The stalks and ears of corn were so thick and heavy that the 15-ton John Deere combine clogged up and lurched to a halt time and time again...
...Brown defense also has a big-play man in senior Tom Hurst. Against Cornell, Hurst returned a fumble 61 yards to the Big Red six-yard line and picked off a pass to secure...
...shop is located in the space vacated by the Edo Art Gallery, now on Newbury Street in Boston. Delisle described the location next to the Hurst Gallery and across from the Lampoon Castle as a "beautiful setting, very European...
Games Three and Four are blurred together. The Sox lost them both, I know that. But Game Five was a must. The Sox turned to Bruce Hurst, and he came through. They went back to the Shea Stadium jungle...