Word: plowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coach he was unapologetically more imitator than innovator. Bryant did not outthink his opponents, he outworked them. "I'm just a plow hand from Arkansas," he would say. "But I've learned over the years how to hold a team together. How to lift some men up, how to calm down others, until finally they've got one heartbeat, together, a team...
...sweet-smelling orange groves of Jericho, the mellow light of the Old City of Jerusalem. There is an air of great antiquity about the place, as if history had paused there and left its indelible imprint. Gnarled olive trees cling to the arid slopes, and oxen and donkeys plow the terraced hillsides, much as they did when Jesus walked the paths of Palestine. In the evenings, women still gather at the village well to fill their earthen jugs, while in the thorny Judean hills, shepherds sing the same melancholy songs their ancestors did generations before...
Ironically, Verba's early success as a dean may give him just one more thing to "worry about." Although his appointment is finite and the Government professor would like to keep it that way, there are already indications that he may be asked to plow through more projects in the future. Says Rosovsky: "I think he's done an absolutely excellent job, and my hope with people like him is that they stay a little longer." Fox adds that Verba did "a superb job" moderating the student government debate...
...keys to success for this lough old-style romance are the two relationships pulling Mayo apart with the strength of plow horses. The son of a drunken sailor, he enlists in the Port Ranter Naval Aviation Office Candidate School to learn to fly jets. There he crashes into Foley, whom I ours Gosset Jr. masterfully molds into a merciless embodiment of martial discipline. There is no heart of gold beneath Foley's taut Black skin: the scorn he displays for his charges on the first day of their 13-week baste training stint changes only to bitter, unstated resentment...
...Bernard Cohen. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, plans to re-read Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge and plow through a tome or two of Sartre and Flaubert. But for an undergraduate not necessarily interested in chasing the history of science on every lazy afternoon, he chooses this septet, including three books by colleagues...