Word: plowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...step or two, the aspiring dealmaker histrionically kisses the mogul's hindquarters. Ostensibly this scene of ritual abasement between old, close friends is being staged for an audience of one, the mogul's new secretary. It is also a central metaphor in Broadway's hottest new hit, Speed-the-Plow, a foulmouthed and ferociously funny slice of Hollywood life...
...money raised by this fast will go towards further development of a particular type of plow, the "broad bed maker," which is especially effective in parts of Ethiopia, said OXFAM Program Representative for the Horn of Africa Robert L. Buchanan...
...farmers in central Ethiopia who have been testing the plow for the past two years are getting much better results in farming wheat and beans than they did before, said Buchanan...
...pitiful. After an entire week of schussing, sliding and skating, Canada and the U.S. were still fighting over a solitary gold medal, ultimately lifted from the Canadian Brian Orser by the U.S. figure skater Brian Boitano to the gentle dismay of the hometown Calgarians. The Americans had to plow their way through nearly half the Games to reap just two medals: the 1,500-meter silver taken by Flaim, and a bronze won with a bobble and a splat by Figure Skaters Peter Oppegard and Jill Watson. The U.S. pair looked thrilled anyway, and the gold-medal spectacle of Soviet...
...result, Harvard puts its graduate student population in a no-win situation. While most would like nothing more than to plow ahead with the dissertation, they instead wind up--thanks to that angry landlord, the growling belly, and rising loan debts--leading two sections and a sophomore tutorial, grading two arm-fulls of midterms, and receiving midnight phone calls from confused and worried students. Why not the best...