Word: plowing
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...President had said that "only the people themselves can draft a President." Now, unlike Cincinnatus, he was leaving his plow and going out to look for some Roman messengers. Even Roosevelt-hating Arthur Krock, New York Times columnist, gave the President's decision to campaign backhanded praise (he likened him not to Cincinnatus but to Coriolanus, the patrician who despised the plebeian voters but went through the form of asking for their votes, because he wanted the office of Consul), even admitted that the decision was "of great value to democracy." Candidate Willkie seemed delighted and excited. The general...
...mellow Carnegie Hall, the Philharmonic-Symphony also launched its 99th season of concerts. This last event produced the loudest crash. For Manhattan's Herald Tribune produced a notable new critic: witty, chubby-cheeked, ex-expatriate Virgil Thomson, composer (Four Saints in Three Acts, cinemusic for The Plow That Broke the Plains, The River), onetime writer on music for Vanity Fair and the Boston Transcript...
...fought hard but fairly. He shook off hecklers the way a plow horse, intent on his furrow, swishes off flies. Grimly, ponderously, doggedly he plowed on, anxious only that his furrow be broad and deep and exactly straight; refusing to compromise or deviate or even rest until he had plowed the whole U. S. with the blade of his campaign...
...Toronto months ago, a plow company was handed an order to make one million shell casings. Up to this week they had not yet been sent specifications...
...Allies, the prospect of wartime hunger, always potential but never too imminent, had grown much more real last week. Though France could always find food for herself (but not for 5,000,000 refugees), she lacked farm hands, was far behind both in plowing and sowing. England could always import hers so long as she had the $1,610,000,000 to meet the annual bill. Last week the Londoner still had his bacon & eggs, the Parisian his pain beune. But Englishmen were at last beginning to see that Master-Farmer David Lloyd George was right: they must plow their...