Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ties led inevitably to a further disregard of their importance, and illicit love affairs bloomed on every side. Naturally enough, this interfered considerably with the work of the state, what with intra-factory jealousies and unexpected pregnancies. Country girls, seeking a better mate than the local lout behind the plow, began flocking to the cities. Party workers in the backwoods were instructed to "explain to young women that it is incorrect to seek mates only among urban youth." In the China Youth magazine, a schoolteacher wrote an article entitled "Do Not Make Love to Middle School Students Who Are Still...
...House groups often admit to a profit, but don't consider this a product of overcharging. They merely "plow back" the money into technical equipment or save it for the next production. Here perhaps the Ford grants for the Houses could be used to advantage. It would not be in the nature of a wasteful subsidy for the Ford funds to cover some of the primary expenditures of House theatricals, thus abating the need both for charging professional prices for amateur production and for selecting a play merely on grounds of potential financial success...
...change horses-the peasant plow horse for the horse of heavy industry-that is the goal. . . of the Five-Year Plan...
...beginning of Soviet Russia's climb from a plow-horse to a horsepower economy, the Five-Year Plan, or Piatiletka, was a dramatic slogan as well as an effective method of primitive state planning. But when the sixth Piatiletka arrived last year, the word had lost its power for millions of Russian workers, case-hardened by 30 years of ceaseless urging to achieve ever higher production norms. Last week the Soviet leaders indicated that they were ready to drop the old Piatiletki for a more relaxed method of planning and executing the progress of their national economy...
...appearances, the patient was dead on arrival, evidently from a heart attack. William Fruehling, 49, of St. Croix Falls, Wis. (pop. 1,500), a village handyman, had been helping to take a snow plow off a truck in zero weather just after lunch when he collapsed, half in and half out of the cab of his truck. A fellow worker had found him, wrestled the 200-lb. null onto the seat of the truck and drove it a quarter-mile to St. Croix Memorial Valley Hospital...