Word: parcelled
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...More Romance? This fits in with another pet Toynbee thesis. Agricultural civilization, which tied man down to a parcel of land and produced the territorial type of community, is being replaced, Toynbee theorizes, by a "mechanical-industrial dispensation," which "resembles the food-gathering and hunting one in a significant particular. In contrast to the cultivator of the soil, the aboriginal Australian food gatherer and the ultramodern immigrant Australian or American industrial worker are like each other in both being rootless ... If we want a label for the now dawning third age of human history, we can call it equally well...
...Leader's Leader. Candidate Kennedy's defeat marked the collapse of the high political hopes he had brought to Washington two weeks earlier: hopes of getting through Congress a parcel of New Frontier welfare measures that would pay off in votes in November, whether...
...alive faded away, Hester set up a marble urn in his backyard in Los Angeles as a memorial to Bob and his fellow crewmen. "The war will never end for us," he wrote to the parents of the lost B-24's pilot. He bought a parcel of land near Lone Pine, built a house there. "Now I won't have to go so far to look for Bob," he said...
satchel or A parcel that someone discarded...
...worst problem: kerosene, still the main cooking fuel in outlying places. The railroad bars it as dangerous, and if the dacha husband is caught carrying it, he will be put off the train and fined. He must therefore have a container sufficiently camouflaged to look like a food parcel...