Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...order to prepare for life in an interdependent world, there is no substitute for living in a foreign land... If we are serious about helping students to overcome parochialism, perhaps the time has come to review the experience of other institutions in encouraging study abroad in order to discover whether some suitable program can be devised for Harvard. --President Bok in his annual report...
...that new Model A from Henry Ford. Their grandchildren now have "plastic money" in the form of credit cards and owe $292.5 billion. The '20s real estate boom was centered in Florida, had created millionaires and seemed to prove, then as now, that one rarely loses money buying land. Even President Carter's insistence last week that the U.S. had a "good solid economy" stirred echoes of Herbert Hoover, another engineer President, who said two days after the Black Thursday of 1929 that the "fundamental business of the country is sound...
From the Appalachians to the Rockies, the combines are churning through our land. Some of these $100,000 monsters can spew out $118,000 worth of soybeans in a day. The U.S. crops-the result of near perfect weather, rich land, technology and extraordinary enterprise-will be worth $61 billion this year (up 17% over last year's record of $52 billion...
Once settled in his new town, Equilibrium, Kansas, McKay falters. The bees become diseased, his wife unfaithful and unhappy, and the Germans never get over the strangeness of the land. The process of discovery is both exciting and fearful--and relentless. By putting himself at the frontier, McKay, along with those who accompanied him, has relinquished the possibility of retreat. He has himself face to face with the challenge of nature; the bees bring it home...
McMahon ties his characters up in a web of natural images, emphasizing their closeness to the land and wilderness: "The sun stings Catherine's shoulder, a dark yellow bee...She felt her heart being eaten from below the way a tomato is eaten when it brushes the ground...Enthusiasm spread like a disease bacillus in a kissing game...Cows moved slowly over the fields crossing the veins of tiny streams, like white worms on a leaf." This fertility of his imagery becomes explicitly sexual in a young man's sense of spring...