Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neighbor's Plow. But the majority of Father Molnar's flock object to his dual faith. They are strongly in favor of Mindszenty. Father Molnar barely managed to prevent a violent clash between Mikofalva's Communists and the pro-Mindszen-ty villagers. "A spark could have set off the flame," he said. He did not dare preach against Mindszenty. Privately, however, he referred to the cardinal as an anti-democrat. To Father Molnar it seemed that the cardinal simply had not been reasonable. "He knew he would be arrested sooner or later. He could have escaped...
...said: "Whatever it is, it is nobody's business to tell me what to do with my land. I know best how the manure should be placed on a wheat field on a sloping hill. And I don't want my neighbor's plow to touch my soil. What's mine is mine, and no one can take it away from me, whether it is Emperor Franz Josef or the boss of the Communists, Rakosi...
...struggle for freedom has sanctified many a spot, and many a mountain stream and rock has its legend, worthy of the poet's pen or painter's pencil . . . And in looking over the uncultivated scene, the mind may travel far into futurity. Where the wolf roams, the plow shall glisten; on the grey crag shall rise temple and tower...
...Victorian rooms in Manhattan's old Chelsea Hotel, he has also become one of the few U.S.-born composers who can (or cares to) catch the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of the U.S. in his music-one reason that documentary moviemakers like Pare Lorentz (The Plow That Broke the Plains) got him to compose their sound tracks. A suite from Thomson's latest film score, for Robert Flaherty's Louisiana Story, has already been given in concert form by the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...literally, it was a useful tool to frighten farmers into soil conservation. For this reason, those of us who are crusading for conservation believe that your analysis of William Vogt's theories, while essentially sound and correct, will be a damaging blow. Farmers will now sleep late, plow up and down the hill. Most of them have to be frightened into action, and now our bogie man is dead by the hand of TIME...