Word: plowing
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Bruner cited the work of a committee of leading physicists who prepared a new high school course in physics as another example of top level scholars doing "plow-back work" of their own field into education...
Died. Russell S. ("Rusty") Callow, 70, dean of U.S. rowing coaches, who began his remarkable coaching career at the University of Washington, later quit after 23 years as coach at the University of Pennsylvania because the Schuylkill River "was too thick to drink and too thin to plow,'' won his greatest triumph as coach of U.S. Naval Academy sophomores who won the Olympic rowing championship in 1952; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz...
...time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years later, while teaching high school back home, Stuart memorialized his mountain kinfolk with an ingenuous, affecting book of colloquial sonnets, Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow. "I was not mastering poetry," he decided. "It was mastering me." Last week, many novels, short stories and verse collections later, Jesse Stuart, now at 53 having left his Kentucky farm to teach for a year at the American University at Cairo, received the $5,000 award of the Academy...
...land, bawls orders to the peasants in his hoarse, high-pitched voice: "Keep the weeds down." "Put on more manure." "Thin out in case of drought." Khrushchev, another peasant's son from the Ukraine, understands and appreciates that kind of talk. Lysenko tells virgin land pioneers not to plow their land in the fall but to plant their grain amidst the snow-catching stubble, advises Volga farmers to increase their crop by cutting their seed potatoes into three or four chips before sowing. However wildly willful his theories, he gets what the pragmatic Khrushchev considers good results...
...catapulted over nine officers senior to him and made commandant of the Marine Corps, General David M. Shoup delivered a peppery annual report in the form of a "happy, warless New Year" greeting to his Pentagon staff. Said Leatherneck Shoup: "A year ago I took the grips of the plow in my hands. After pushing an accumulation of vines and weeds from the moldboard, I lifted the lines from the dust and found hitched to that plow the finest team I ever held a rein on. Little geeing and hawing have been necessary." But Shoup also gave the Corps...