Word: plows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...border; so Weidner signed up a fellow villager, Jürgen Wagner, 22, to take the wheel. Eight days before Christmas, the pair began the feverish preparations in Weidner's garage. First Weidner and Wagner attached a heavy snowplow to the front of the bus, not to plow snow, but to scoop away the heavy obstacles they knew awaited them at roadblocks ahead...
...that Nikita Khrushchev launched his grandiose "virgin lands" gamble. Part of the plan was to plow up 32 million acres of marginal land in Kazakhstan, and settle it with Communist "pioneers," who were to plant and produce huge quantities of desperately needed grain within two years...
Produce to Paris. To farmers, Lamour's irrigation scheme was attractive. Less attractive was his proposal that they plow under 300,000 acres of vines and turn to cultivating unfamiliar crops. But Lamour had two persuasive arguments. His diversified Farm of the Partridge was conspicuously profitable. And at Lamour's urging, the government (which is trying to reduce wine production) offered to pay $363 an acre to every Midi farmer who plowed under his grapevines...
...Plow Tomorrow. Como tumbled before a program that is dedicated to finding out how many times the same joke can be repeated. Mountaineer Jed Clampett and his family, worth $25 million because oil was found in their swamp back in the Ozarks, have moved to Beverly Hills to live among the polychrome celebrities of show biz. Pa bought a house built by John Barrymore, and the place is easily large enough to be mistaken for a university. Pa takes an appreciative look at the smooth and gorgeous sweep of lawn and says, "Fine, we'll commence plowing tomorrow...
Died. George Joseph Maurer, 56, senior reading clerk of the House of Representatives since 1943, a stentorian speaker who could call the roll of 437 members in less than 20 minutes, or plow through a 90-page bill unnoticeably abridging the tedious parts; of a heart attack; in Westfield...