Word: plowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peasants were forced to borrow from their landlords--at interest rates ranging from 100 to 3650 per cent. The peasant had to sell everything he owned--his water buffalo, old heirlooms, sometimes even his children--to keep his head above water. He hitched his wife and children to his plow to replace the water buffalo, but still his debts continued to mount. And if he missed a payment on his taxes or loans, he was tossed into a colonial jail and beaten...
...suppose he picked up the habit in a museum. By the same token, he may never have heard of Gustav Klimt or even Monet, but another section of Fantasia, the Pastoral, now looks like a shotgun marriage of the two, with Disney's plump, nippleless nymphs and plow-horse centaurs cavorting around the iridescent blooms and bubbles of a pond in Arcadia...
Dixon, who now weighs 300 lbs. and stands 6 ft., 2 1/2 in., says that when he was a teenager, he was big for his age. He developed strong legs from walking behind a mule and plow all day, and strong arms from "totin' logs." I thought strength did everything," he notes, "and I was big and strong and hard." When he was 17 years old, he left Mississippi for Chicago with some 100 songs that he had written, and the dream of becoming a professional fighter. Dixon had a few pro-fights in Chicago. He was Joe Louis...
...around the tiny tip of Oman, the Persian Gulf may be the world's most valuable and vulnerable waterway. At such desert-edge ports as Ras Tanura, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Dhahran and Kharg Island, scores of supertankers congregate like wallowing whales to suck up crude oil. Daily they plow through the gulfs warm waters and out through the Strait of Hormuz carrying some 20 million bbl. of oil-almost half of the non-Communist world's consumption. If the gulf were closed, the effect on the U.S., Europe and Japan would be devastating...
...Stanford's plan is the cellulose in wastepaper and grass clippings. Although cellulose is indigestible for man, it is the basic diet of microorganisms that can trigger a natural sequence of soil enrichment. Stanford proposes to plow cellulose-containing material in garbage into the desert soil. Next, he would fertilize it with "sludge," a purified end product of sewage treatment that looks like gruel, smells like tar and is loaded with nutrients. Using a little sewage water for irrigation, Stanford says, will then turn the desert into a vast garden. His theory makes eminent sense to scientists...