Word: pra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...church. But in tiny (pop. 220) Kyprianades, in the northern part of the sun-drenched Greek island of Corfu, Father John Costeletos, 45, kept silent. There was little need for him to talk: everyone in town knew that he and his affair with the 37-year-old Widow Theodora Pra had prompted all the other sermons in the first place. And so, one day, when his church bell rang for the congregation to gather, the people of Kyprianades wondered whether Father John might at last be ready to make public confession...
...love feast" or community religious meal, pra'cticed by the early Christians...
Before the last star has faded on the horizon, on every day, seven days a week, Alex Johnson, 60, a husky (212 lb.), balding man from Miami, gets up, pulls on his khaki working clothes, leaves his stilt-legged house at the Tha Pra livestock station in the depressed northeastern sector of Thailand. Tha Pra, a corrugated plateau where the soil is poor and the people poorer, is a bumpy, 300-mile, two-day journey from Bangkok. It is also the worst place in the region to conduct agricultural experiments, but Alex Johnson, longtime teacher of vocational education, who retired...
...years in Tha Pra, Alex Johnson has introduced the country's first silage system, taught sanitation, farm management, building construction and irrigation, brought high-yield corn (50 bu. per acre) from Indonesia, improved pasture and foliage, showed his charges how to use commercial fertilizer, planted grain and sweet sorghum, introduced the Velvet bean and the cowpea (for soil improvement). In his own acre-plus garden he demonstrated to once dubious Thailanders that pineapples and bananas can be grown well in poor soil, even cultivated tomatoes, collards, okra, eggplant, yellow squash, sweet corn and lettuce...
...month) is double the prevailing French journalistic wage. The publishers hold a daily 6 p.m. editorial conference with Editor Max, seldom emerge from their cluttered third-floor office before 9 p.m. Last week the lights were burning later than usual in the massive sandstone building near the Oépra, where Réaltiés and its sister magazines are published. Max and staff were mapping their most challenging assignment yet: a wide-ranging report on life in Russia and Communist China. At week's end, Max put the Cossets on a plane for Moscow, first stop...