Word: plows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Behind Carter in line was Jimmy Wallace, a sturdy black man who will turn 64 on Christmas Day. Outside, Wallace lingered, enjoying the scene. "I've known him all his life," he said proudly. "Me and him used to plow the mule together, back when I worked for his Daddy. I told him he'd come a long way, with the help of the Lord." A black nurse's aide smiled and said, "When I was voting I felt good about it. I've known Mr. Carter. He was always nice-a Christian gentleman...
...Autumn, a patriarch who is all South American dictators compounded into one, shuffles with his flat feet "like a senile elephant" through his declining years, remembering all that he has sown and reaped, left untouched or blighted. We watch his powers slowly rot over seemingly endless time, and plow with him through strata of recalled events...
...taught that there is "no causal relationship" between spiritual exercises and the mystical culmination. At least half of all mystical experiences come un-summoned. Then why bother to do the exercises? Bharati's guru had one of those exasperating Oriental answers that answer nothing and everything: "Some plow the fields, some go to war, some to exercises...
Butz and others have been pressing to plow under the peanut program. To head off that eventuality, Representative Dawson Mathis of Georgia has recently introduced a compromise bill that would reduce acreage allotments by 22.5% and pare support prices slightly. The showdown could come next year when Congress votes on a new general agriculture bill. If the nation's best-known peanut farmer-who has indicated that he favors lower price supports -is then occupying the White House, it will be interesting to see what recommendations come from the Oval Office...
Like Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus on a similar occasion, General Putnam is celebrated in New England for leaving his plow in mid-furrow to go to fight the British. Even before that, the general was a local legend as "Old Put," homespun hero of the French and Indian War, who escaped scalping only by a mixture of courage and guile...