Word: pour
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recesses in the Cambridge collective unconscious ("other-directed," "sibling rivalry," "residual bitterness," "bubble gum," etc.). In Mr. A.'s review many words are enclosed by quotation marks, but few of these words may be found enclosed within the covers of our magazine. By giving us credit for sentences which pour out of his own head or somewhere, Mr. A. blights Gadfly with a tone not there...
...their 18 handcuffed hostages, including Prison Sociologist Walter Jones, into a pair of cell cages in the third tier. On the bars above and around the sides, the ringleaders stationed convicts with jugs of naphtha from the laundry. Their orders: at the first noise of an attack from outside, pour the naphtha on the hostages, light it. "We'll burn 'em," shrieked a convict from the wall, and Warden Powell got word from inside that they meant...
...ticked off France's recent accomplishments in Algeria: the extension of equal and universal suffrage to Algeria's Moslems; the progress of a program to provide schooling for all Moslem children ("There are a lot of them"); and, most important, the Constantine Plan, under which France will pour $420 million into industrial and agricultural development of Algeria in the next year. "By comparison," he said, "the desperate battles and outrages in Algeria appear each day more absurd...
Such shocking figures, just compiled, started to pour last week from the office of Delaware's Republican Senator John J. Williams. With the help of browbeaten Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson (TIME, March 2), Williams proved once again the case he made last session...
...have been wrought in U.S. agriculture by mechanization and automation, plus the new use of fertilizers. In the last 20 years, farming has changed more radically than in the previous two centuries. Once farmers used to dole out fertilizer thinking only of how much it cost them. Now they pour it on by the carload, confident of getting back bigger profits at harvest time. Farm use of fertilizer has risen in 20 years from 1,500,000 tons to 6,200,000 tons. To handle the huge increase in crops, farmers have had to mechanize almost every farm job. From...