Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Advocate's story contest has added a great deal to the issue. Two of three stories which won prizes are well-written and entertaining. My only argument with the Advocate in its choosing Joyce Leonard's Hand to the plow and Donald Stewart's Dennis Gray for the first two awards is a disagreement in the order of preference. I think that Stewart's is the better story...
...been Big Steel's legal eagle, a vice president, and President Benjamin Fairless' right-hand for years, Blough had a passion for anonymity. But last week, as Chairman Irving Olds retired at 65 and President Fairless took on his job as well, Blough (rhymes with plow) emerged as the heir apparent to what has traditionally been Big Steel's biggest job. He took over the long-vacant vice-chairmanship of the company...
...snowplow on the activities of local policemen and their minions. At the first signs of snow the minions are out with their tow trucks. "Snow Removal," they mutter, as they yank your car off to their garage, looking nervously over their shoulders for the snout of the all-devouring plow looming up behind a drift. They might as well be looking for a Sno-Go. The tow trucks come and go, but still squatting in the rectangular grimy mounds where the cars have been is the snow, a little sullied but determined to stick out the winter...
...traditional way to improve such soil is to add large amounts of manure or to plow under many crops of green stuff. When this organic material decays, a small part of it turns into natural gums called "polyuronides," which bind the soil particles together into the much-desired crumbs. But reforming a problem soil in this way is expensive and the polyuronides are quickly destroyed by soil bacteria...
Among the frisky young colts in the U.S. literary stable, 25-year-old Novelist Frederick Buechner has many of the marks of a writing thoroughbred. His style stems from Henry James, his imagination makes such plodding documentarians as Norman Mailer and James Jones look like plow horses. Critical railbirds who clocked him on his first novel, A Long Day's Dying, found that he ran a sharp race with a light package: the havoc of a love affair between a middle-aged woman and her son's English instructor...