Word: mowers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selling an expensive service contract than in explaining the machines. The 50 baby chicks ordered in April have not yet arrived; there is no trace of the order except on our bill. Last summer it took more than six weeks to get a part for our Sears riding mower. Perhaps a little less attention to investments, real estate and insurance and more attention to value and service will help Sears continue its success...
...story, mercifully short on saga but long on authenticity and the instinctual relationship between people and their land. A lot of true grit sifts through his pages. A farmer leads his sons as if growing things were a war on nature: "Their machines moved out over the fields, the mower clattering, breaking down at least twice a day. The old man stomped and swore. He nicked his hands replacing sharp steel teeth. The hayrakes followed his mower, his sons turning the dried hay into neat, continuous piles that looked like whorls of a huge thumbprint." A mother lays down...
...August, a 29-year-old Florence, S.C. man named Larry Gurley was killed by four officers who suspected him stealing a lawn mower. The cops say they chased Gurley into a wooded area, wrestled him to the ground and handcuffed him, whereupon he suddenly died...
...mean just about everybody's going to Adams. I mean look at the Rotunda. All of Mower, Thayer, Weld, Wigglesworth is there Everybody...
...think Gordon wanted was a piece of the action," said Driver Bill Alsup at Smiley's funeral. "Gordon didn't know anything but 'fast,' " said Derek Mower, Smiley's crew chief. "If you hit wrong, I don't care if you're in a Sherman tank," said A.J. Foyt. "It's all over." Then Dennis Firestone, Smiley's close friend, dried his tears and went out and qualified for this Sunday's race. "I know Gordon would have wanted me to," he said...