Word: plowing
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...Diego's Balboa Park Zoo, there was a quiet shift in emphasis: two horses marked for slaughter now pull a plow in the victory garden. Top billing at San Diego still goes to Ngagi, the slow, silent, 639-lb. gorilla. Ngagi's cage mate, Mbongo (645 lb.), died last year; he now has a lady friend, a mere shrimp named Kenya...
Divorced. Pare Lorentz, 37, famed producer of documentary films (The River, The Plow that Broke the Plains); by Sally Bates Lorentz, 30, onetime Broadway actress and mother of his two children; after eleven years of marriage; in Reno...
...Commune's men looked at the ice, at each other, at the 85-ton ice plow attached to their boat's blunt bow. Their job, if they could do it, was to clear the Mississippi's channel so that oil barges could get to Minneapolis by the first week in April, two weeks before shipments had ever gone through before. Behind them, in St. Louis, the barges waited. Ahead, in Minneapolis, war factories waited for the oil. But the ice was thick, the weather still bitter cold, the Mississippi stubborn...
...often damned than understood. In part, the attacks are the result of sheer intellectual laziness in refusing to read what the Marxists wrote, but some of the blame rests on Marx's followers themselves. Anyone interested in understanding what all the shouting is really about would be required to plow through an enormous list of incredibly difficult and abstruse tomes written in German or Russian. No systematic and coherent treatment of the subject and its development through the last century has been available in English...
...further expand it. The process of expansion itself immobilizes a million men: the men in training, the trainers, the service and medical troops and other overhead, the officer-candidate schools and various specialist schools. As we get toward the end of our expansion program, we will be able to plow back this overhead into replacements for the fighting forces...