Word: plows
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...Brookfield, the chairman of the board of selectmen is Dairy Farmer Charles Keeler. His phone is still listed. Standing in his barnyard, a seasonal bog, he says, "You can plow snow, but not mud. There's not much you can do about mud except wait for it to go away. The only thing to do is add gravel-18 inches is a pretty good surface-but mud season occurs before the town gravel pit melts...
...19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers as decadent, electricity as unnecessary and flush toilets as wasteful. They forgo the automobile in favor of sleek trotters and canvas-topped carriages of hickory wood. They use fine, sturdy workhorses to spread manure and plow their fields, which is what they are doing these days as spring spreads over their green country...
Their running was all too predictable," said Balliol fullback Jeremy Gould. "They were afraid to plow straight ahead. We could tell they were going to pitch it to the side...
...fields had already been planted that spring, so Wallace had to send 22,000 mostly volunteer agents prowling through the country to persuade suspicious farmers to plow under one-quarter of their crops for cash payments of $6 to $20 an acre. If destroying newly planted crops seemed to violate every American tradition-and it did-Wallace was even more furiously criticized for deciding to slaughter 6 million baby pigs rather than let them grow to full size. The son of Calvin Coolidge's Agriculture Secretary, an eminent plant geneticist and an idealist with presidential aspirations, Wallace...
...justification for the draft. But did The Crimson editors really mean to say that "a democratic army would mean a return to an earlier day when people of different classes and backgrounds in this nation occasionally got to know one another?" Are we to stand shoulder to shoulder and plow the fields of military prosperity, just like in the good ol' days? The similarity of this suggestion with other nostalgic images we've been treated to during the past two years is almost frightening...