Word: plowed
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Anyone trying to convert the bases to civilian use must plow through a jungle of red tape. The Federal Government retains ownership of the base land and buildings until somebody else takes them over, and it reserves the right to determine the "best use" of them-a decision in which as many as eight federal agencies may get involved. Under some circumstances, the Federal Government will turn over base property free for use as parklands or airports. But if a state, local community or private company wants to use part of a base for industrial purposes, it must...
...Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott, the Statler Brothers examine the plight of the movie-oriented family man who must plow through G, PG, R and, especially, X ratings...
...descended of peasant Irish and large-boned Teutonic stock. Round-faced and broad-hipped, doubtless some day I will be able to drop babies in the field like peas from a pod, and return to the plow before the sun is high in the sky. Right now, being young, basically healthy, and female, I recognize the almost overwhelming potential of my body for conception. At this stage, however, I wonder whether the fertility I am burdened with must necessarily cloud every doctor's perceptions of my illnesses. I go to UHS when I think I have a sore throat...
...this potential doorstop winning such acclaim? Are readers in 1974 really that willing to plow through 25 pages of hearsay evidence on Macaulay's eloquence as a parliamentary orator from 1832 to 1834? Or, for that matter, the more than 50 pages that Clive uses to summarize Macaulay's revision of the Indian penal code? And then, after half a thousand pages, Macaulay's masterpiece plus 20 years of his life still lie ahead-for this is only the first volume from an academic biographer who knows everything and tells all, not ungracefully but sometimes twice...
...ever assembled. The ice closed round the ships and wrecked them. The crews escaped in small whaleboats and were eventually picked up. Of 1,200 men aboard the vessels not a soul was lost. But many a Yankee countinghouse was foreclosed, many a proud harpooner sent back to the plow...