Word: plows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gadget-minded Bob invented a weapon to help him in his never ending battle to keep the mesquite trees from crowding out the grass on the range. This was a "tree dozer," an oversize tractor with a steel hand to snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later...
...those of Wilson, F.D.R., Madame Chiang Kaishek, and Gandhi. ("What a dome," recalls Davidson, rubbing his stubby hands, "what a dome that Gandhi had!") The writers included Conrad, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, G. B. Shaw, D. H. Lawrence (whose thin, bearded face Davidson had made indomitable as a plow), Gertrude Stein, Sinclair Lewis, and 1947 Nobel Prizewinner André Gide, looking like a Roman Senator in marble. Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever snarled in bronze. John...
...favor of "the Southern way of life"; otherwise, he did not mention the subject of white supremacy. Instead, he talked about improving agricultural methods and backing the U.N. Said John Stennis, a teetotaler, a staunch Presbyterian and a family man (two children): "As a Senator ... I want to plow a straight furrow down...
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Practicing tankmen are persuaded to keep their distance; the Ministry of Agriculture cancels an order to plow the pipits' particular field; village parishioners sing a lady poet's uproarious anthem in praise of the birds. Menace is supplied by practitioners of the queerest racket yet to break into the movies: egg stealing. The local colonel (retired) bumbles out the movie's "message," to the general effect that Englishmen, funny as they appear about it, are lovers of nature and of fair play, and that, in a sense, the tawny pipits are what England is fighting...