Word: plowing
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...dull, and its message is hopelessly sentimental and confused. It is one thing to satirize the evils of predatory industrialism and hymn the praises of clean and sturdy toil. But it is nonsense to give the impression that hardship is better than ease, that back-breaking hours over a plow are beautiful, that the hand is quicker than the machine, or that the profit motive was first discovered shortly before the Civil...
...handed out its first big farm subsidy, $162,000,000 in benefit payments: to plow under 10,500,000 acres of cotton, kill 222,149 brood sows, 6,188,717 little pigs. Farm income rose...
...Snow-Plow" is Necessity...
...Once you have the fundamentals you can go on to learn the high speed turns like the Christians. When you know the snow-plow, or double stem, and the snow-plow turn, and know them well, you can go on any trail in New England...
...identification numbers painted on their sides, lined up at the casting ground, their handlers behind them. At a signal from the purple-coated Master of Hounds, they were unleashed, followed by nine judges on horseback and, five minutes later, some 200 riders on mounts ranging from expensive hunters to plow-galled plugs...