Word: plows
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...States. At home, he has done his best to expand his revolution, most recently seizing oil fields from two multinational companies that refused to sign joint ventures with his government. But judging by the protests in Caracas this week against rampant crime and police corruption, Chavez may want to plow more money into basic necessities like law and order if he wants to keep his revolution alive...
Some places the border is a muddy river, too thin to plow, too thick to drink. Other places it's just a line in the sand. Over the years mapmakers redrew it, wars moved it, nature yanked it all around as the course of the Rio Grande shifted. But what would it take to make it disappear altogether...
...less appealing ‘microcook,’ which saw a surge of popularity in the late 1970s but has, according to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), since only resurfaced in magazines such as Midwest Living. And this is all terribly recent when compared with ‘plow,’ which after 300 years in noun-land seems to have made the jump some time the mid 15th century.The interesting question to consider, and where the moral of this story lies (for anyone worth his salt at columning must always be working towards a moral...
...Midwest is that it’s a farm culture, and the farmers know that if their crops are destroyed by drought or locust or freezing, they can’t sit on their porch and cry about it. They have to get back on the tractor and plow the field. And it’s that kind of sensibility that I admire, and that’s Evelyn Ryan’s sensibility. Some people call it denial. I call it Midwest...
...really be a mirror designed to shift my gaze from the road to my traveling companions? And while the DVD player takes the edge off long trips with my 2-year-old son, I can't shake this feeling that it's only a matter of time before I plow into a busload of schoolkids while struggling to cue up SpongeBob SquarePants. My navigation system, meanwhile, not only can locate the five nearest Chinese restaurants from any point in the continental U.S. but will also remind me that I have a noon dental appointment and that I need to pick...