Word: plant
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...year's summer season was wrecked largely by the war as well as by the looting of $1 billion worth of fertilizer, seeds and agricultural equipment from 100 warehouses. Now the farmers are worrying about what could be another calamity. They are afraid they may not be able to plant the seeds for the next growing season before the rains begin, any day now. What's missing: fertilizer...
...anyone can plant a hit. Balestracci can make an opponent feel it before it is ever even delivered...
...been the practice of the Faculty to vote on new buildings, on the physical plant or on questions relating to the allocation of slots,” Summers said. “Dean [of the Faculty William C.] Kirby and I will consult extensively with members of the Faculty, but for reasons deeply rooted in University governance and tradition... matters that are curricular are matters of the Faculty, but matters regarding the allocation of resources by Massachussetts Law are reserved for the Harvard Corporation...
...need to build on the prudent management of the past. We cannot compromise on undergraduate financial aid, or support of our physical plant,” Kirby said...
Show-stealer status was unequivocally won, however, by the person-eating plant Audrey II. The Currier House Musical Society scored a coup by somehow managing to rent a set of awesome-looking puppets from a New York supplier (sources tell me that only five groups of such puppets exist), and made splendid use of them onstage. As the play progressed and scenes changed, Audrey II grew larger and larger, finally ending up the size of a small Volkswagen, equipped with fangs and a mouth full of purple feathers. The puppeteering was fabulous: Sarah D. Ronis...